The Cultivation of Farmers’ Social Capital from the Perspective of the New Rural Construction

Abstract

This paper firstly analyzes the two aspects and the two kinds of capitals in new rural construction and then puts forwards the deficiency of countryside in social capital aspect. Theoretically, this paper questions the popular way of founding special cooperative organization in countryside and analyzes the problems in its practical operation. In authors’ opinion, the only way to construct the rural productive social capital and the distributive social capital reasonably is to found the agricultural cooperatives based on references from outer experiences and inner reform. It is urgent to make innovations on present rural management system in order to realize the socialism new rural construction.