REPORTS

Notice for Farmers to Share Burden
By China Labor Watch
July 31, 2002

This notice is part of a July 2002 China Labor Watch report on the living conditions of Chinese rural peasants.

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From Bai Shu Town government July 15th 2001

To XX village:

Your village has an average annual income 1,335 Yuan/person in 2000, based on the country's law, and approved by County Agriculture Monitoring Committee, your village in 2001 should share the burden as 33.30 Yuan/person, it is 2.49% of your average annual income last year. The reasonable burden of your family is:

1 Village use: 88 Yuan

2 Town government:

a) Education 45 Yuan

b) Birth Control 8 Yuan

c) Special care:15.50

d) Militia training: 4.5

e) Road maintain: 5.5

Total for above: 166.50

Volunteer laboring: 50

Other laboring: 100

(total: 316.50)

This should be paid to the village committee before 25th of July 2001, you will have a receipt that was printed by Henan provincial government. If you do not pay in time without a good reason, town government will ask the county court to force the payment, you are responsible for any extra expenses for this action. Volunteer laboring and Other laboring will be organized by village. If you want to pay rather than providing labor, you should apply for approval from village committee. The village should not force farmers to pay instead of working.

This can be seen all over rural area of China (The text is: The organizers and planners of complaining collectively to upper level government must be punished, to control the complaining procedure in order)

This can be seen all over rural area of China (The text is: The organizers and planners of complaining collectively to upper level government must be punished)