Imbalance and Correction of the Rural Credit Cooperatives and Rural Economic Relations

This article expounds the manifestations of imbalance between the rural credit cooperatives and rural economic relations: the rural credit cooperatives fail to effectively promote economic development in rural areas; the rural economy is also incapable of effectively promoting the development of the rural credit cooperatives. It analyses the reasons for imbalance between the rural credit cooperatives and rural economic relations, including the direct reason (loss of function of the rural credit cooperatives), the fundamental reason (restricted economic development of agriculture and countryside and relative pauperization of farmers), and the deep-seated reason (sluggish rural economic development). Corresponding countermeasures and proposals are put forward for promoting balanced development of the rural credit cooperatives and rural economy as follows: first, deepen reform of the rural credit cooperatives, strengthen the function of the rural credit cooperatives in serving the needs of agriculture; second, speed up economic development in rural areas, eliminate the economic constraints for the development of the rural credit cooperatives; third, transform the development pattern and the development strategies, foster the macro-institutional environment for balanced development of rural credit cooperatives and rural economy.