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This book is a companion volume to the author's "Common Sense of China's Rural Economy" published in the same year in 1946. Except for Chapter 5, it can be regarded as a collection of the author's papers published in the first volume of "China's Rural Areas". This book mainly introduces the general theory and basic knowledge of agricultural economics as well as the development process and characteristics of agricultural production in advanced capitalist countries at that time. In December 1933, the author joined the China Rural Economic Research Association initiated by Chen Hansheng, and served as the editor-in-chief of "China Rural Areas" in October of the following year. During this period, the China Rural Economic Research Association conducted extensive surveys and research in major provinces across the country and wrote a large number of survey reports. These reports used hard facts and scientific analysis to illustrate the semi-feudal and semi-colonial social nature of China's rural areas and attacked the popular reformist arguments at the time.