found: Work cat.: MacFarquhar, Roderick. The great leap forward, 1958-1960, 1983:introduction (the leap gave birth to a new social organization, the people's commune; its functions withered within a few years, but not until 1981 did Chinese economic reformers begin to talk about abolishing it lock, stock and barrel)
found: Modern China's economy and management, 1990:title page (edited by Ma Hong) page 486, editor's note (The people's commune was established in 1958, based on an amalgamation of agricultural producers' cooperatives. As a rural grass-roots administrative unit, it integrated government administration and commune management. In other words, it was an economic organization of peasants' collective ownership and a state-power organization at the grass-roots level in the countryside as well. The new Constitution, adopted in December 1982 at the fifth session of the Fifth National People's Congress, stipulates that the township is the grass-roots state-power unit in rural areas and the the people's commune is a managerial unit of collective economy, separate from the township. By June 1986 governments separate from people's communes have been established throughout the country)
found: Jin, Chongji. Er shi shi ji Zhongguo shi gang, 2009:page 881 (section title: 农村人民公社化运动 = Nong cun ren min gong she hua yun dong (meaning "the movement to form rural people's communes")) page 884 (the name "人民公社 = Ren min gong she" was first used by 七里营人民公社 = Qiliying Ren min gong she in Xinxiang Xian, Henan Sheng, China; When Mao visited the commune in August, 1958, he liked the name, so it was broadcasted on the news, thus, the name started to be used nationwide)
