What do you mean, land to the tiller?

"Land to the tiller" means that under the private ownership of land, landless farmers can get a certain amount of land. Sun Yat-sen used it as a slogan to realize "equal land rights" in September of the lunar calendar.

China Agricultural Encyclopedia (Shandong Volume) published by the Ministry of Agriculture summed up the following significance in 1994: "Solving the land problem of farmers and realizing' land to the tiller' is the fundamental problem of China's democratic revolution and the fundamental task of China's production party during the democratic revolution. In the War of Liberation and the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the land reform led by the China Production Party finally enabled this task to be completed. "

"Farmers are small private owners. Because of the natural characteristics of agricultural production and the low level of productivity, farmers demand stable land possession and private ownership of basic means of production. Land to the tiller' is the highest economic demand and dream of farmers for thousands of years, and it is also the fundamental driving force to encourage farmers to join the proletarian revolution. After the proletariat seizes power, it is natural to solve the farmers' land requirements. "

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1946, China decided to change the policy of rent reduction and interest reduction into the policy of "land to the tiller", and the document was "instructions on liquidation, rent reduction and land issues". "Land to the tiller" is to eliminate land exploitation, but the implementation method is different from the agricultural collectivization policy of the Soviet Union, which is actually private ownership of land. However, "land to the tiller" is not feudal private ownership of land, but revolutionary private ownership of land.

It completely wiped out the feudal and exploitative land system in China for more than two thousand years, liberated a large number of laborers from the land, laid the foundation for the rapid industrialization after the founding of New China, won the support of the peasant class, greatly improved the revolutionary enthusiasm of the peasant class, and became one of the important reasons for the victory of the proletarian revolution in China.