State Policies, Peasants and the Rural Poverty in Contemporary China: A Perspective from Structurization Theory

According to the structurization theory, the formation of rural poverty is the result of interaction between state policies and peasants under certain time-space conditions. Peasants in poverty are familar with the existent conditions and external situations they confront. They have intensive intention to alleviate poverty, but their actions are conducted under some rules and polocies which constrain them Peasants always want to eradicate poverty, but always fail.