The Origins and Development of China’s “Three Rural Issues” / Lu Xueyi -- The Scale and Distribution of New Rich Peasants after the People’s Republic of China’s Land Reforms / Su Shaozhi -- The Deep Plowing Movement of the “Great Leap Forward” / Zhu Xianling, Ding Zhaojun and Hu Huakai -- A Study of the Construction of Terraced Fields in Liulin County, Shanxi Province in the Era of Collectivization / Hao Ping -- Historical Observations Regarding the Large-scale Establishment of Rural Public Canteens in Hebei Province / Li Chunfeng -- From Busy-Season Childcare Centers to Full-scale Kindergartens—Rural Childcare Organizations in Shanxi Province in the 1950s / Han Xiaoli -- Restitution Paid by Rural People’s Cooperatives in the 1960s: An Inquiry Focused on Jiangsu Province / Wang Yugui -- Transformations to Commune and Brigade Enterprises and the Rise of Rural Private Enterprises in Gaoyang County, Hebei Province in the Early Days of Reform and Opening / Feng Xiaohong -- Analysis of the Construction of Village Collective Economic Organizations and Related Issues in Changshu City—Four Case Studies / Zheng Yougui -- The History of Rural Private Lending in Hubei Province, 1952–1954 / Su Shaozhi and Chang Mingming -- The South-to-North and North-to-South Flows of Grains and Cereals—Changes to Directions and Quantities of Flows of Grains and Cereals between North and South in Contemporary China / Zheng Yougui, Ou Weizhong, Kuang Chanjuan and Jiao Hongpo / Three Historic Changes to Inter-regional Grain Flows in the People’s Republic of China and Their Causes / Qu Shang and Su Shaozhi -- Rural Population Flows in the Era of Collectivization: A Study of the Border Region between Jiangxi, Fujian, and Guangdong provinces / You Haihua -- A Review of Research on the State Monopoly / Wang Danli