Chinese People's commune

人民公社在中国大陆属于一种“政社合一”组织，分为“农村人民公社”和“城市人民公社”，而以前者最为著名。农村人民公社属于当时计划经济体制下农村政治经济制度的主要特徵，即农村计划经济时代。人民公社既是生产组织，也是基层政权，普遍存在的时期为1958年－1984年，随着市场经济的建立而被解体，全部被乡、或镇取代。

"People's Communes are a kind of "integration of government and society" in mainland China, and are divided into "rural people's communes" and "urban people's communes", and the former is the most famous. The rural people's communes belonged to the main feature of the rural political and economic system under the planned economic system at that time, that is, the rural planned economy era. People's communes are not only production organizations but also grassroots governments. Their common existence period was from 1958 to 1984. They were disintegrated with the establishment of the market economy, and they were all replaced by townships or towns."

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  1958 People's commune free for all canteen, where members were supposed to be able to eat all they can eat.
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  1958 People's commune free for all kitchen, where members were supposed to be able to eat all they can eat.
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  Eat for free canteen in China.
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  Xinyang working at night.