Studied counties

(Districts, villages)

Setting experience of standards of collective economic organization membership recognition

Handan City

Guantao County

1. The mode of “1 + X” is adopted for membership recognition, namely household registration + (actual rural life, contracted land owned, contributions and historical reasons).

2. The proportion of added qualifications or the number of added members of the collective economic organization shall be discussed and decided by villagers or the congress democratically.

Feixiang District

The mode of “1 + X” is adopted for membership recognition, namely household registration + (actual rural life, contracted land owned, contributions, etc.).

Tangshan City

Hangu Precinct

1. Principle + specific case.

2. Respect the history and integrate reality on the basis of the consideration of the relations of household registration and land contract.

3. Specific case: Farmers who have the household registration of their own village and obtain the right of land contracting and operation in their own village and derivative agricultural populations shall be guaranteed. The people changing the rural registration to non-rural registration and village’s collective economic organization members’ children who have the household registration of their own village and study in universities and junior colleges shall be guaranteed. Compulsory servicemen, non-commissioned officers conforming to national regulations and people serving sentences, who have the right of land contracting and operation in their own village shall be guaranteed. Other personnels recognized by cadres, party members and villagers’ congress of the village shall be guaranteed.

Chengde City

Shuangluan District

1. The region formulates and promulgates Provisional Managerial Measures of Collective Economic Organizations of Villages and establishes different types of collective economic cooperatives.

2. General standards and supplementary standards are adopted. The setting types of supplementary standards are discussed and decided by members’ congress in accordance with household registration, and supplementary standards in regard to contributions and other reasons are set based on the differences between the village’s actual situation and reality.

Baoding City

Wangdu County

1. The region determines the membership based on the requirements of following the legal condition and household registration relation, respecting the history, taking the actual condition into account and relaxing restrictions, and considers various factors, such as the relationship of land contracting, interest relationships of collective economic organizations, etc.

2. It also clarifies the time nodes of membership registration and valid period of the service time, and imposes basic limitation of the conditions of members of collective economic organizations.

3. It sticks to the principle of law going first and followed by people’s opinions. Taking villages as units and household registration as the basis, the region conducts classified registration and requires the “two committees” of the village to review the qualification for the first time. The result will be submitted to the villagers’ congress for discussion, and it will be publicized after being approved. Any objections will be discussed and decided by the villagers’ congress. For cases of marriage-caused relocation, double identities, registered people without actual residence and other personnels, it is necessary to follow laws and regulations, discuss collectively, settle the cases one by one and determine through democratic votes.

4. It sticks to the principle of standard procedures and recognition of the mass. The principle of “three matters to be determined, discussed and disclosed”. “Three matters to be determined” refer to determination of principles, conditions and methods. “Three matters to be discussed” refer to discussion and evaluation of the villages’ committee, discussion and approval of the party branch and the villagers’ congress. “Three matters to be disclosed” refer to the disclosure to all villagers of the village, disclosure of the result of discussion and evaluation and disclosure of the decision result. Putting people first and considering fairness at the same time are carried forward to confirm the cases of outgoing populations, household registration alteration, double identities

and other special personnels as members of collective economic organizations as far as possible to ensure normal production and life and prevent immediate interests of the minority from being damaged by most people.

Cangzhou City

Renqiu City

1. The region carries out all-round statistics of the registered populations and non-registered populations, which have a close relationship with the collective economic organization, and conducts detailed classification of registered populations and non-registered populations in accordance with indicators of household registration, relationships of production and life, performance of villagers’ obligations, etc. It also follows the principle of “law going first, followed by regulations and then people’s opinions” to carry out member confirmation.

2. General standards and supplementary standards are adopted, and the setting types of supplementary standards are discussed and decided by members’ congress democratically.

3. Take household registration as the main focus, the standards are set in accordance with the mode of “1 + X”, and “personalized policies for each village” are adopted based on each village’s actual condition.

Shijiazhuang City

1. The standard setting fully respects the custom of allocation of the village and is discussed and decided by the villagers’ congress democratically.

2. Fixed time nodes are adopted as the supplementary setting standards. For example, Dongyin Village of Luancheng District leaves the time of household registration alteration for the villagers when determining the base date, which is finally determined as July 30, 2015.

3. Contributions and other factors are taken into account during the specific process of setting supplementary standards. However, there are also exceptions. For example, the 4 people with special conditions in the Goubei Village of Xingtang County, including two people who work in the Yangquan Coal Mine, are not determined as members of the collective economic organization. The two people submitted their incomes to the village during the period of 1956-1958 and became formal workers in 1959. Although they keep living in the village, they don’t meet the standard of the household registration factor. The rest two people are teachers employed by a private school of the village, and they stopped enjoying the qualification as the members of the village’s collective economic organization since their identities transformed to teachers of the public school. However, the mass who once made contributions to the collectivity, talents of rural revitalization, etc. are highlighted during the process of collective organization membership recognition. For example, under the leadership of Zhang Furen, the village branch secretary of Shoudong Village, the “Grain Painting Town”, the village’s business assets reached 27.2637 million yuan. However, Zhang’s identity transformed as a civil servant of the town in 2017, and he shall not be recognized as the member of the collective organization pursuant to regulations. At last, Zhang was recognized as the village branch secretary, which belongs to collective members, through the vote participated by all villagers.

4. Membership recognition of special groups: 1) Identities of females who get married to people outside the local place and their children are clarified. The daughters of the household with both sons and daughters are allowed to participate in the allocation, but her spouses and children shall not participate in the allocation out of the identity of the villagers and fairness. The daughters of the household with daughters and without son, who operate the home, and their husbands and children can participate in the allocation, and other married daughters may participate in the allocation by themselves. Except for the daughter who operates the home, other ordinary daughters can enjoy rationed shares by themselves, and the spouses and children whose household registration is not in the village shall be excluded. 2) Identities of children immigrated due to the marriage are clarified. Taking the Dongyin Village of Luancheng District, Shijiazhuang as an example, 4 people immigrated to the village due to the marriage. Two people of them were young when their mothers remarried and moved to the Dongyin Village, and the other two people were nearly 30 years old when they moved to the village. In consideration of the villagers’ duty to foster underage stepchildren, the people taken into the village due to remarriages, who are under the age of 18 are recognized as the members, and the people taken into the village due to remarriages, who are over 18 years old are excluded.