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Production brigade
Former rural administrative division of the People's Republic of China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A production brigade (simplified Chinese: 生产大队; traditional Chinese: 生產大隊; pinyin: shēngchǎn dàduì) was formerly the basic accounting and farm production unit in the people's commune system of the People's Republic of China.
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In late 1960, the unit of accounting through which labor and income were allocated was devolved from the people's commune to the production brigade.[1]: 139 In many cases, these brigades corresponded to the high level agricultural producers' cooperatives that had preceded the people's communes.[1]: 139
In 1962, the unit of account was further devolved to the production team, which remained the unit of account until agricultural was totally decollectivized between 1979 and 1982.[1]: 139