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| 1978 || || || The People's Commune system is replaced by a rural household production responsibility system. This system allows each rural household to use a piece of land and provide grain to the local government at the state-ordered rate according to the household's contract. The household can dispose of remaining produce as it wishes. This new system is considered to place agricultural development on a more positive track.<ref name="and nutritional status"/>
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| 1978–1989 || Food || Production || Per capita agricultural production rises from about 316kg to 367 in the period.<ref name="Shujie"/>
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| 1979 || Food || Policy || The Chinese Government starts implementing major land, social, and economic reforms. The country’s economy and agricultural productivity would change greatly after this time.<ref name="China in the period"/>
