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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

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- An advanced cooperative was a fully collectivised Chinese agricultural unit, introduced from 1955–56, in which land and major means of production became collective property and members were paid by labour alone.
- How did an advanced cooperative differ from an elementary cooperative?
- What triggered the rapid spread of advanced cooperatives in 1955–56?
- What replaced the advanced cooperative?
- Why is the advanced cooperative significant in the collectivisation sequence?

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An advanced cooperative was a fully collectivised Chinese agricultural unit, introduced from 1955–56, in which land and major means of production became collective property and members were paid by labour alone.

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1. 30 June 1956

   The model derived ideologically from Soviet kolkhoz practice and was authorised institutionally by the Model Regulations for Advanced Agricultural Producers'…

2. 31 July 1955

   The decisive political impetus came from Mao Zedong's speech "On the Question of Agricultural Cooperation" of , which attacked colleagues for moving "like a…

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In 1956, following Mao Zedong's 1955 call to accelerate cooperation, roughly 88 percent of China's peasant households had been merged into advanced agricultural cooperatives that abolished land dividends and paid members by work points alone.

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