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What was the life of farmers before the land reform in China? Please, 3Q.

Years of hard work, exploitation, and lack of food and clothing.

It used to be collective ownership. At that time, the land was collective, and both the elderly and farmers worked for the collective. They don't earn much centimeters all the year round, and their scores are a few points lower than one centimeter. People's living standards are very low, and their living standards are very low. After the new year, everyone can only have a few hundred dollars left to maintain the living standard of each family. There is no flour and rice in big salty soy sauce, and both rice and white flour can be eaten. The grain in the field is divided according to the head, and it will not be enough to eat by the end of the year. The food is not enough to burn firewood, there is no money for heating, and the house is cold in winter.

Before the founding of New China, the semi-colonial and semi-feudal old China still maintained the feudal land system, with landlords and rich peasants accounting for less than 10% of the rural population and 70%~80% of the cultivated land. The proportion of land rent to output is generally above 50%, and in some places it reaches 70% ~ 80% or even higher. Poor peasants, farm labourers and middle peasants, who account for about 90% of the rural population, only occupy 20%~30% of the arable land.

Land system reform is the basic task of China's anti-imperialist and anti-feudal bourgeois democratic revolution. The victory of this reform greatly mobilized the revolutionary enthusiasm of the peasants, and enabled the China Producer Party to obtain the most basic conditions for leading the people of the whole country to defeat all enemies, which played a decisive role in the victory of the new-democratic revolution. The victory of this reform has also greatly mobilized farmers' enthusiasm for production. They used most of the products originally given to landlords as land rent to expand reproduction. In this way, the rural productive forces were liberated from the shackles of feudal exploitation system, which effectively promoted the development of agricultural production and created favorable conditions for realizing socialist industrialization and agricultural cooperation.

Rural productive forces have been greatly liberated, and agricultural production activities have resumed and developed rapidly, which has prepared conditions for national industrialization. The completion of the land reform completely destroyed the feudal land system that existed in China for more than two thousand years, and the landlord class was also eliminated. The peasants turned over, got the land and became the owners of the land. This further consolidated the people's political power, greatly liberated the rural productive forces, quickly restored and developed agricultural production, and prepared conditions for the country's industrialization.