ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the basic characteristics and types of rural collectivism, as well as its implications for rural governance and rural development in China so as to provide an interpretative perspective in the exploration of the development logic of rural society. Collectivism in rural China can be summarized into five types in its historical evolution. They are political collective type, farming collective type, rural industrial collective type, capital operation collective type and administrative collective type. In the agricultural production type, the influence of the village community is also relatively weak. Although many production teams tried to contract production to households or even groups, they were all forbidden. The entire periphery outside of the village belongs to the urban neighborhood management, while the inside fence is still under the traditional village collective governance, an interesting picture brought by the evolution of the collectivist system. The influence of collectivism itself as the basic rural governance system has never ended.
