The Household Responsibility System

Chani is one of the leaders who starts to organize what then becomes the agricultural reform nonqas. Many of them are not even party members, but they are linked to the system through some key elderly leaders. They fulfil an important role in that the they represent a certain external, a third party kind of agency. Since they are not linked into the system, they don't represent anyone within the system in their evaluations. The serviys that they conduct are such be taken very seriously and help to create legitimacy for the household responsibility system.