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"Sanliwan Village" Group Discussion Write Up

Based on the reading, it can be said that Zhao Shuli gives importance to the expansion of

agricultural cooperatives. In Sanliwan Village, the people are capable and are experienced

because of how they worked. The creation of agricultural producers' co-op made Sanliwan a

model village, thereby resulting to that village's capacity to put up functionaries from outside

(Zhao Shuli 9). Zhao's narrator reinvents a socialist new village within the village boundaries

because with the very existence of agricultural producers' co-operative, peasants have joined and

undertaken the road to socialism (199). To note, Zhao Shuli's narrator mentioned that the village

have to expand the co-op first so that they would know how many members are needed for the

co-op (141). With this set up, they can decide as to the payment and how much work should they

do. However, it cannot be denied that agricultural workers tend to experience hardships most

especially when it comes to working out either in determining what seed is best for the soil or

what specific fertilizer should be used, when to sow, and how many shoots to leave (Zhao Shuli

91).

From the given discussion, our group’s stand is that agricultural cooperatives should be

expanded. From Zhao Shuli’s point of view, the people in Sanliwan are already capable and

experienced because they worked hard during the revolution. However, it is not enough that

these workers are capable and experienced, because the road to socialism carries with it a lot of

challenges. As mentioned above, there is a necessity for the acquisition of better knowledge and

better equipment because the workers have to be well-educated when it comes to seeds, soils and
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fertilizers. Aside from that, there is a need to ascertain who can become members of a certain

cooperative, so as to determine the payment and the work that has to be done. It is only through

being equipped that the expansion of agricultural cooperatives become successful.

Work Cited

Zhao Shuli. "Sanliwant Village." Print.