Township and Village Enterprises
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Township and Village Enterprises (TVEs) are entrepreneurial communities based in townships and villages in rural areas of the People's Republic of China. They developed in mainland China after the economic reforms under Deng Xiaoping in the early 1980s. Generally, the local populace is mobilized into a business or industry through the state. This system has been efficient in China[citation needed] and is truly unique.
Most of the economic growth of the 1980s and 1990s was concentrated in the coastal cities such as Shanghai and Guangzhou. TVE's accounted for most of the rural economic growth.
By 1993, TVE's employed 123 million people.[citation needed] Since 1996, TVE's have declined.[citation needed]
It is important to note that although they offer great expansion opportunities to the rural areas of China and help provide funding for local governments that see little money from Bejing, health and safety issues are often ignored by officials, causing high-polluting and dangerous or unfavorable labor situations for the workers.
[edit] Organization
TVE's are run hierarchically. At the top, a government leader, often with a foreign investor, appoints managers and allocates earnings.
[edit] See also
- Provinces of China (for a discussion of townships and villages).
