Under the Household Responsibility System

question 43

Multiple Choice

Under the household responsibility system,

• A) villages own the farmland but contract it out to individual families who operate it chiefly according to the profit motive.
• B) formerly collectively owned land has been transferred to private ownership.
• C) individual households are held responsible for a certain level of agricultural output.
• D) individual households and families are responsible for the provision of many social services previously guaranteed by the state.
• E) individual households are permitted to own, or invest in, rural enterprises that are, in turn, collectively managed by local authorities.

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