The social structure and physical form of the state-owned farm in north-east China

Abstract

[EN] The northeastern state farms, as the state farm group with the biggest size and the largest number in China, play an important role in cultivation and guarding the frontiers. As a special enterprise with the nature of socialist ownership by the entire people, state farm has been influenced greatly by national policies in spatial form evolution and has formed a special evolution mechanism. In this study, 290 Farm was taken as the example, with policies and system at different historical periods as the clue, to discuss farm spatial form of residental area and division of farmland by influencing population quantity and distribution, land usage right affiliation, land use and allocation of the farm