This book focuses on the theme of Gutian system (land-stock mode) and rural stock system development of rural land reform in China, profoundly explaining the connotation and denotation of rural Gutian system and rural stock system and their ideological basis, proposing the theoretical framework of rural Gutian system and rural stock system, and analyzing the mode selection, realization path, mechanism implementation, system arrangement, organization guarantee and other major theoretical and practical issues of them. The book is divided into twelve chapters, and boasts a rich store of case studies and data analyses.

Professor Lei Ming is Director of the Institute on Poverty Research of Peking University.