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  1. There are approximately 193 million farming households in China with on average 0.67 hectares per farm household.

  2. The rule has been ignored at times when urban centres wish to increase their labour pool and imposed in times of high unemployment.

  3. In most cases the manager retained his position in moving to the new ownership arrangements.

  4. This survey was carried out as part of a research project, SHASEA, funded by the EU under the Fourth Framework Programme.

  5. Borrowed size relates to enterprise locations at a distance from a large urban centre, where access to the urban enterprises and services (positive agglomeration externalities) is relatively easy, while at the same time the costs (negative agglomeration externalities) are relatively low.

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Cuddy, M., Lijun, Q. The rural economy in China and Russia – what is different? Is there a lesson for Russia?. Econ Change 40, 157–187 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10644-007-9008-2

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