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传闻证据规则的理论与适用/郭山珉

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传闻证据规则的理论与适用

郭山珉


[摘要]传闻证据规则是英美证据法中最重要的证据规则之一,它原则上要求在审判中排除传闻证据,证人证言须在法庭上接受检验,只有在符合法定的例外情形时才允许采纳庭外陈述。简言之,即传闻证据一般不具有可采性。传闻证据规则是排除一种证明手段的规则,不是排除事实的规则。对于我国司法实践中存在的证人不愿作证、审判中大量使用书面证言的问题,该规则具有可借鉴的意义。

关键字: 传闻证据;传闻证据排除规则;例外;证人作证


  我国学者在传闻证据与传来证据的关系上有个逐渐理解认识过程,早期有的学者认为传来证据就是传闻证据,还有的认为传来证据又称传闻证据,是原始证据的对称。在形式上二者有某些相似之处,但是,实质不同。一是含义不同,传来证据是大陆法系采用的一个概念,是指原始出处以外的其他来源获得的证据。而传闻证据是英美法系国家使用的一个概念。传闻证据是指不是由陈述者在审判或者听证中作证时作出的陈述,在证据上将它提供来证明主张事项的真相。二是判断标准不同。传来证据仅以证据是否是从第一来源直接获得的为标准。而传闻证据强调以法庭审判为中心,凡在法庭审判外提供的证言,均属传闻证据。三是证据的范围不同。传来证据不仅包括言词证据,而且包括实物证据。而传闻证据仅限于言词证据。四是运用规则不同。我国对于传来证据没有制定专门的证据规则,在司法实践中一般要求尽量收集和使用原始证据,在原始证据难以收集或者遭到破坏时 ,传来证据经过查证属实,也可以作为定案的根据。而传闻证据是排除规则,即法庭原则上应当排除传闻证据的使用,只在少数例外的情形下,才会被采信。

一、传闻、传闻证据、传闻证据规则的法律语义解析

  传闻,在日常的语义中是指“辗转流传的消息”(据《高级汉语大词典》),相当于“风闻,谣传,道听途说”(据《现代英汉词典》)。作为法律用语的传闻一词来源于英国判例法。“传闻”一词是作为证据来源意义上讲的,一旦作为证明方式提出,即为“传闻证据”。当然,这里的“证据”并非在“查证属实的事实”的意义上使用,而是作为“证明材料”或“证明的根据”来理解。
  传闻证据,根据美国法学家华尔兹教授的的表述定义是指:“在审判或听证的证人以外的人所表达或作出的,被作为证据提出以证实其所主张的事实是否真实的,一种口头或书面的主张或有意无意地带有某种主张的非语言行为。” 依此定义,传闻证据应当包含这样三层意思:一是传闻证据的形式可以是口头的或书面的陈述,也可以是意图表示某主张的行为。二是由在法庭上作证的证人以外的人作出的意思表示。三是作为证据被提出,以证明所主张事实的真实性。这一点尤为关键,也是诸多学者能够达成共识的地方。所以,要判断一项证据是否为传闻证据,一条比较简单的规则就是明确提出该证据的目的什么,是为了证明某人曾经说过这样的话,还是证明他所说的话是真实的。例如,证人在法庭上说:“2003年11月15日,被告人对我说,‘上个星期我去上海出差了’。”如果证人提出该被告人曾经说过的话是用来证明被告人2003年11月15日前的一个星期确实在北京,那么它就属于传闻证据,如果他的转述这番话只是想证明被告人在2003年11月15日确实说过这样的话,它就不是传闻证据。再如,当证人的庭前供述和当庭陈述不一致的时候,庭前的陈述往往可以用来作为弹劾证据使用,目的是为了表明证人在先前的程序中曾经说过那样的话,而不是为了证明当庭的陈述为真,所以也不是传闻证据。可见,传闻证据有三个特点:(1)是以人的陈述为内容的陈述证据;(2)不是直接感知案件事实的人亲自到法庭所作的陈述,而是对感知事实的书面的或者口头形式的转述;(3)是没有给予当事人对原始人证进行反询问的机会的证据。
传闻证据规则,又称传闻证据排除规则,其概念含义正如美国《联邦证据规则》第802条规定:“传闻证据,除本法或联邦最高法院依法定授权制定的其它规则或国会立法另有规定外,不予采纳”。

二、两大法系传闻证据规则之异同

  英美法系认为传闻证据排除规则存在的理由在于传闻证据具有不可靠性,这是因为;第一传闻证据不是证明事实的最佳证据;第二传闻证据几乎都是未经宣誓作出的;第三陈述者如果不作为证人出庭作证,那么陈述者将无法接受交叉询问,因而法庭也无法证实该陈述的真实性。第四法官和陪审团将没有机会观察陈述者进行陈述时的举止。传闻证据由于缺少控辩双方的交叉询问,因此传闻证据存在虚假的风险更大。近来随着时代的发展,传闻证据的可靠性亦在不断提高,因此,许多学者对传闻证据规则提出了质疑,提出了缓和适用传闻证据规则的理论新动向。如美国哈拂大学内森教授认为,传闻证据规则是建立在两个假设基础之上的;一方面,公众对裁判的接受具有行为上的示范意义。因为,如果人们观察到被法律权威人士采用的程序是公正的,那么他们更愿意服从法律。另一方面,放弃证人出庭作证将会破坏公众对裁判的可接受性。还有的学者提出在刑事诉讼中,传闻证据规则体现参与价值,保护了个人的尊严价值和平等价值,有助于形成一个对控诉权进行控制的机制。
  大陆法系国家,虽然没有明确规定传闻证据规则,但是普遍确立了直接言词原则。而从直接言词原则的内涵和基本要求看,直接言词原则和传闻证据排除规则具有异曲同工的效果。根据德国学者对直接言词原则的解释,在法庭上提出任何证据材料均应以言词陈述的方式进行,诉讼各方对证据的调查应以口头方式进行,如以口头方式询问证人、鉴定人、被害人等,以口头方式对实物证据发表意见,任何未经在法庭上以言词方式提出和调查的证据均不得作为法庭裁判的根据。为了贯彻直接言词原则,大陆法系国家的刑事诉讼法普遍强调证人、鉴定人、被害人等都必须出庭作证。
  值得说明的是,虽然传闻证据规则和直接言词原则均要求证人等亲自出庭作证,但二者的侧重点有所不同。在大陆法系国家强调法官在发现案件事实真相中的主导作用,因此,直接言词原则侧重于证人亲自出庭在法官面前进行陈述,以便保证法官接触到最佳的证据。而在英美法系国家强调当事人双方以平等对抗的方式来推动案件事实真相的发现,因此,传闻证据规则侧重于证人与当事人面对面,以便接受当事人的交叉询问。 

 三、传闻证据规则的例外

  传闻证据规则否定了传闻证据的可采性,但如果严格地排除所有传闻证据,显然对查明案情不利。所以,必须对传闻规则进行一些限制。英美证据法学界认为,传闻证据规则的例外情形必须具备两个条件,可信性和必要性。
  对传闻证据规则例外规定的典范无疑是美国1975年生效的《联邦证据规则》。在该法的第803条和804条规定的传闻证据规则例外主要分为两类:第一类是无条件的例外,陈述者能否出庭作证不具有实质意义,也就是说原陈述者可“不必”出庭作证(第803条);第二类为附条件的例外,原陈述者“不能”出庭(第804条(b))。第一类例外有23种:(1)陈述者当场的感觉印象;(2)激奋言词;(3)陈述者当时存在的精神、感情或身体状况的陈述;(4)出于医疗诊断或治疗目的而作出的陈述;(5)被记录的回忆;(6)关于日常行事的活动的记录;(7)公共记录和报告;(8)重要统计记录;(9)缺乏公共记录或记载;(10)宗教组织记录;(11)婚姻、洗礼和类似的证明书;(12)家庭记录;(13)反映财产权益的文件记录;(14)文件中影响财产权益的陈述;(15)在陈旧文件中的陈述;(16)市场报告、商业出版物;(17)学术论著;(18)关于个人或家庭历史的名声;(19)关于边界或一般历史的名声;(20)品格方面的名声;(21)先前定罪的判决;(22)关于个人、家庭、或一般历史、或边界的判决;(23)其它例外。第二类例外有五种:(1)先前证言;(2)临终陈述;(3)对己不利的陈述;(4)关于个人或家史的陈述;(5)其它例外。对于上述例外,不适用传闻证据规则加以排除。①

四、我国刑事证据规则的现状

  目前,我国仍然没有单独的刑事证据法典,有关刑事证据的内容散见在刑事诉讼法及其司法解释当中,在我国刑事诉讼中,具有明确法律依据的刑事证据规则只有非法证据排除规则和补强证据规则,没有明确规定传闻证据规则,但是对证人作证规则在某些方面体现了传闻证据规则的基本精神。例如,《刑事诉讼法》第47条的规定,证人证言必须在法庭上经过公诉人、被害人和被告人、辩护人双方讯问、质证,听取各方证人的证言并经过查实以后,才能作为定案的根据。根据《刑事诉讼法》第48条的规定,除了生理上、精神上有缺陷或者年幼,不能辨别是非、不能正确表达之外,凡是知道案件情况的人,都有作证的义务。可是在同一部法律的第157条却规定:“对未到庭的证人的证言笔录、鉴定人的鉴定结论、勘验笔录和其他作为证据的文书,应当当庭宣读。”这一条是以宣读证言方式代替证人出庭的法律根据。这一规定表明了证人作证方式的可选择性,可以出庭作证,也可以用书面证言。这其实是否定了第47条的规定,因为第47条的用语是“必须”,是没有选择的。最高人民法院在《最高人民法院关于执行〈中华人民共和国刑事诉讼法〉若干问题的解释》第58条明确规定:“未出庭证人的证言宣读后经审查属实的,可以作为定案的根据。”这就为传闻证据的采用提供了方便之门。
  总之我国《刑事诉讼法》中对证人出庭作证采用的是宽泛而笼统甚至有些相互矛盾的规定。

五、传闻证据规则在我国确立现实性和必要性
  近年来从刑事诉讼模式的运行程序和效果来看,成绩是肯定的,特别是在庭审改革方面,1996年刑事诉讼法的修订确实是以对抗式审判为参照的,而且在实践中也一直沿循着增强对抗的改革思路。对抗式的庭审需要对抗性的规则。证人作证制度为实现上述目标的主要设置之一,但是由于缺乏应有的规则,已经是“四面楚歌”。可以说,司法实践中证人出庭率低,书面证言大行其道就是我国缺乏传闻证据规则最典型的症状之一。当前,传闻证据规则对我国诉讼制度最大的现实意义在于,如何抑制书面证言的恶性膨胀,如何促进证人作证,实现庭审对抗式程序的基本功能。根据笔者在南京地区的调查了解,司法实践中证人拒证现象已经到了非常严重的程度,很多法院的证人出庭率尚且不到1%,使得庭审制度改革的效果大打折扣,几近失败。从审判改革的宏观背景来看,传闻证据规则在诉讼中的确立,乃是一个机制协调的问题。笔者认为,我们应当以我国的诉讼结构和诉讼目的为考虑因素,结合司法实践的实际情况,在平衡公正和效率的诉求下,以司法改革为切入点,围绕证人出庭作证制度,有必要建立适合我国刑事诉讼实践的传闻证据规则。

(一) 法律修改规定证人应当出庭作证。
  于审判外所作的口头、书面陈述和带有意思表示的非语言行为,是传闻证据,除法律有规定外,不能作为认定案件事实的证据。也就是说,对于传闻证据,原则上应当排除。
  尽可能地使证人出庭是传闻证据规则的一个基本原则,但所有证人都出庭作证却是不可能也是不必要。首先,证人出庭作证的成本太大,所有证人出庭的费用非目前财力所能承受;其次,所有证人出庭将使程序烦琐,诉讼拖沓,不利于审判效率的提高;再次,所有证人出庭事实上也不可能实现,不能兑现的规定只能损害法律的权威。笔者建议,对案件重要事实和定罪量刑起主要证明作用的证人或者控辩双方对其证言真实性有争议的证人,即关键证人应当规定出庭作证。如果书面证言内容双方一致认可,对书面证言的使用双方均无异议,证人也可以不出庭。判断关键证人作证对案件事实的认定是否起“主要”作用,可考虑证人作证的内容是否涉及定罪量刑的基本问题、证人作证的内容与案件中其它证据是否存在矛盾之处。对于没有正当理由不出庭的证人,能否采用强制到庭制度,笔者认为,证人的不可替代性决定了证人证言的特殊性,它要求证人必须亲自到庭作证,强制证人作证可以保证证言的获得率,保证诉讼的顺利进行。而且,强制证人作证,对于拒绝作证者和潜在的拒证者有一种威慑作用,可以起到特殊预防和一般预防的双重功效,当推行之。但要注意的是对证人而言,出庭作证并不能给他带来直接的利益,而在大多数案件中法院的判决结果也与证人无直接的关系。因此,单纯依靠传闻排除规则并不能形成证人出庭的驱动利益,也不能解决证人出庭率低的问题。对此我们应当有一个清醒的认识。可以想象,即使在英美法系国家,离开了证人保护制度、证人补偿制度、证人拒证惩罚制度,传闻规则也难以发挥提高证人出庭率的作用。
(二)完善相关配套制度
  第一,确立证人保护制度。只有在事前、事中和事后各个阶段给予证人以全方位的保护,才能免除证人的后顾之忧,使证人愿意作证。其中包括证人的人身权利和名誉权两个方面。前者包含生命安全和人身安全,应当把预防对证人的伤害放在首位;后者指在证人作证牵涉到自身名誉时,法庭应当为证人保密。这可以借鉴美国的做法。在美国的刑事司法中,司法部门有专门的证人保护项目,根据案情的严重程度和对证人的危险程度,在作证之前和之后,对于证人提供各种保护,如警察全天候守卫证人,甚至为证人更换居住地,更换工作,更换身份。在高度危险的案件中,证人保护项目是高度保密的,除了负责保护的司法人员以外,任何人都无法了解证人的行踪。
  第二,确立证人出庭作证费用补偿制度。对于证人的作证费用,如交通费、食宿费用和误工费应予补偿,原则上由国家支付。但应当制定一个统一的补偿标准(可以依据地方经济差异予以浮动),以免买证之弊病。具体可以在刑事诉讼法中规定,或者在专门的刑事证据法或证据规则中明确规定,或在配套司法解释中规定。
  第三,明确证人的权利和义务,以及证人拒绝作证的法律责任。法律明文规定的情况以外的证人必须到庭,否则可以对证人采取强制手段甚至加以惩罚。例如,对通知以后,证人不主动到庭可以依次采取传唤、拘传,如无正当理由仍然拒绝作证者,最终以藐视法庭罪进行处罚。这样才能维护法律的严肃性,使证人义务真正得到落实。
(三)防止传闻证据规则的例外自由化
  鉴于我国的国情,不能采取“传闻规则的自由化”,而应当严格限定书面证言的适用范围,防止滥用。同时,严格拟定传闻证据规则的例外情形:
(1)证人身患严重疾病或者行动极为不便时,可以提供书面证言,但应当事先向法庭提交身体状况的证明。
(2)证人因路途遥远或现居国外,无法在庭审日到庭提供口头证言的,经法官批准可以通过信函或电报方式提供书面证言,或者委托其它法院进行询问而作成笔录。
(3)经控辩双方同意采纳该传闻证据。传闻证据规则的理论基础之一在于保障被告人的反询问权,而被告人同意采纳传闻证据,则意味着有反询问权的当事人已放弃其反询问权,原则上应当允许作为证据。但是,传闻证据并不因当事人的同意而自然取得证据能力,法官也有一定的裁量权。例如,在刑事诉讼中,法官如认为双方同意提出的传闻证据并不具合法性的,如认为取得的过程有重大违法,该项证据仍无证据能力。
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The Collectivizationa and De-collectivization in Rural China

周大勇 (Zhou,Dayong)

Abstract: the process of de-collectivization took place 25 years ago, however it was uncompleted, which determined that china has to make great effort to continue his rural reform, in order to liberate the peasant and the status of rural region as the Party promised. In China, the non-privatization reform occurred along with the de-collectivization was a uncompleted reform, which remains the defects of both collectivization and small-scale peasant economy, therefore it restricts the development of the rural society, however, the current system seems unable also reluctantly to change it. This paper intents to introduce the process of the collectivization and the most important rural reform in this century, namely the de-collectivization, the demonstrates the progression of de-collectivization, its characters as well as the problems left to be solve.
Keywords: collectivization De-collectivization collective ownership incomplete

Foreword
I am pleased that I am allowed to write the term paper about China. China was influenced by Marxism and walked in detour of history for half century. Before Marxism bankrupted in former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe countries, China had adopted a different way to reform from those countries. Because of the difference in aspects of historical evolution, political forms and natural environment, it’s hard to compare the rural society of China with these former socialism countries directly, also, the progression of collectivization and its end are different in two continents.
Rural china before collectivization
Collectivization was a mark system of the socialist state. Although in the era of Utopian socialism, Robert Owen for example has already attempted to set up the collective farm, but it wasn’t pursued by force strength of government. Even the founder of communism Marx didn’t agree that communism could be realized in undeveloped countries with extremely poor productivity . It was Russia, the serf country, in which Communist took power without adequate preparation; collectivization was implemented by force, in order to consolidate the rule in grass-root countryside. This experience has influenced China and Eastern Europe, because one of the merits of the collectivization lies in being easy to be managed, the other lies in being easy to deprive peasants.
China was a backward country, which suffered from ignorance and war for centuries. Throughout the centuries some 80 to 90 percent of the Chinese population were farmers and live in one of some 900,000 villages, which have an average population of from 1,000 to 2,000 people. Villages were not self-contained, self-sufficient units. Clusters of villages centered on small market towns, which linked them to the wider economy and society by providing not only opportunities to buy and sell but also opportunities for entertainment, information, social life, and a host of specialized services. The traditional Chinese elite, often referred to in English as the gentry dispersed across the country and often lived in rural areas, where they were the dominant figures on the local scene, normally ruled villages. Although they held land, which they rented to tenant farmers, they neither possessed large estates like European nobles nor held hereditary titles. However, they traditionally interpreted central policies and national values for villagers. As in feudal relationship, the peasants and gentry live depend on each other. Gentry provided land to poor peasants and tenant, and work with rich and middle peasants to secure the order in village, for instance opening school and building basic infrastructures to maintain there social status. In Chinese history, at the beginning of very dynasty, the land relationship between landlord and poor peasants were comparably fair, that meant, peasant have parcel farmland to live on. But land tended to be concentrated on end every dynasty, then there might be a peasant uprising led to a new dynasty and retribution of land. This is the basic clue of social evolution in China before communist period.
After the Chinese Communist Party came into power in mainland, it had to keep its promise, which it made during the period of war to encourage the peasant to join the army, that it would gave peasant their own land. The first major action took place from 1940s to early 1950s. June 1950, a new Land Reform Law of new People’s Republic was promulgated and stipulated nullification of the feudal land ownership system, and institutionalization of the system of land ownership by peasants, in which the Party sent agents to every village to carry out the land reform policy. This in itself was an unprecedented show of political power and the resolution of transform an old society. The reform was successful, because the peasants supported the policy; most of them had been waiting for the reform for long time. In the light of the reform law, land were redistribute from the landlords, land-owning trusts or wealthier families to the poor segments in the same village; village elites, who might be expected to go up against the Party and its programs were brought down; new leadership was established by poor peasants who showed the most loyalty to the party's goals; instead of kinship group or patron-client ties, class status became new relationship among villagers.
the process of Collectivization
However, the Party’s leaders were not satisfied with the privatization of land, at one hand, such ownership, according to the doctrine of socialism, should have been abolished in the state of socialism, at another hand, private ownership of small peasantry had no function of property accumulation for the country. At that time, in order to accelerate the construction of socialism, China had launched The First Five-Year Plan after the Soviet model; heavy industry development was profound stressed since the leaders of Communist Party regard socialist country as a country with developed industry sectors. However, the situation in early 1950s was not ideal for a new country. Pressing of needs for food in a country with burgeoning population, domestic capital for investment, and purchase of Soviet-supplied technology, capital equipment, and military hardware. To satisfy these needs, collectivize agriculture was put forward. Collectivization was regard as a method to turn countryside to stabile backing, which can be managed as semi-military and had rare contact with outside, so that the government could press the price of agricultural products by means of scissors difference between cities and countryside, and seize huge numbers of profit from agriculture economies to support the industrialization in city. At the same time, the government had already nationalized banking, industry, and even trade. Private enterprise was already virtually abolished in national wide.
Despite internal disagreement as to the speed of collectivization, preliminary collectivization was launched since 1952. China's peasantry saw Chairman Mao and the Communist Party as heroic much more than Russia's peasantry had seen Stalin and the Bolsheviks as heroes, and through 1956 the peasantry cooperated with the Party. There was none of the resistance and warfare that had accompanied the collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union.
The collectivization of agriculture was basically completed with the establishment of the people's communes in 1958. The People’s Commune system was defined as a unity of politics and production, in which all members of the commune jointly owned property. Essentially, the commune system was based on private contract of its members and the principle of voluntaries and mutual benefit, however, it turned out yet as coercive institutional arrangement, which was made by government with political power. In the movement to achieve the People’ s Commune, peasants had no choice whether or not to join.
Communes were designed as large, embracing scores of villages created by combining some 20 or 30 advanced producers' cooperatives of 20,000 to 30,000 members on average, in some cases the membership varied from as few as 6,000 to over 40,000. It was instituted as an organization with functions of the lowest level of local government and the highest level of organization in agricultural production. Communes consisted of three organizational levels: the central commune administration; the production brigade , and the production team, which generally consisted of around thirty families. This kind of institution was an organization of hierarchies, in which the commune acted as political unit and top manager, the brigades played role of co-coordinators between the commune and the basic production teams. The production team was basic units of production and accounting. Since the people’s commune system was a tool established to extract resources from agriculture sector for industrialization, as a result, it neglected peasants’ incentive completely. In order to let the people’s commune system run, the central government designed an relative effective mechanism to encourage managers in each hierarchy to work enthusiastically, yet, in each level, the managers were treated differently and there was a clear difference in aspects of identity and welfare between the managers of the commune and of the brigades or production teams.
The commune was defined as administrative organ and executed the central government’s orders, and paid from central government’s budget, therefore the managers in the level of commune were “state cadres” , that means they were formal governmental officials and got wage monthly. These state cadres could be promoted and became officials of governmental divisions in higher level. Brigades and production teams were collective economic organizations, their running expenses came from production teams’ tribute. Managers in brigades level were called “collective cadres” . They were remunerated in their own production teams according to their labor quotas. Their wage was paid in the form of products instead of money. Managers in production teams were“team cadres”, they were also members of the production team. They worked as peasant like their workmates, and were paid in products according to labor quotas. Team cadres could be promoted to collective cadres. Collective and team cadres had little possibilities to be promoted and became members of state cadres. Nevertheless, as collective and team cadres had some privileges. For example, collective managers had the power of assigning state’s delivery quotas and production tasks among production teams, they determined who could enrolled in state-owned factories, universities and army. The production team managers executed the power of assigning work and distributing products among collective members. Furthermore, in the period of many political movements and class struggles, the identity of cadre could protect their families, relatives and themselves from being denounced and bullied (Tan, 1999).
At beginning, the commune itself was decorated as the representation of socialist society and had all merits of public ownership. Although nearly all the private property had been deprived, peasants had to praise the new system profusely. it was true, most poor peasants found that their lives changed, by eating in the public dining they didn’t need to worry about their own budget anymore, and by working together, they were not necessary to try their best. Following propaganda appeared in newspapers everyday:
The public dining halls are distributed in a way that members need walk only a few minutes from their homes to take their meals. On the freshly whitewashed walls of the one on Shihfuchien Street, a typical establishment, there is a big slogan in red, which reads, "High Spirits for Higher Production!" Its kitchen, to which the visitor is drawn by the aroma of food and the clatter of pots, is managed by Tu Hsiu-chen, the first volunteer cook, who has since learned large-scale catering from the chef at one of the city's restaurants.
The walls of the spacious dining room are decorated with paintings, as a home might be. Its tables and chairs, though simple, are scrubbed to a shining cleanliness. The food is fresh and tasty -- vegetables are grown by the commune itself. The staff make a special point of studying the diet and preferences of old people, children, nursing mothers and members with ailments. There is a separate room for parents with small children, provided with low tables for the little ones.( People’s Daily, 1958)
However, in practice, this ideal, extremely centralized form commune didn’t keep running well in most areas. Very soon it became clear that in most cases the communes were too clumsy to carry out successfully all the managerial and administrative functions that were assigned to them. The cooperative led to low-efficiency, the advantages of large-scale productivity didn’t arrive as peasants anticipated, productivity began to drop and discontent emerged. The reason lies in insufficient utilization of resources and lack of incentive of peasants. At one hand, the output of cooperation comes from all members’ work, in which the tribute of single household is difficult to be measured. So that opportunism like shirking happened naturally very frequently. An effective way to prevent shirking is to have all members supervised, but the seasonal work and spatial diversity of agricultural productive activities make it difficult to totally supervise. At the other hand, although brigade and production team cadres were obliged to complete state’s planning and all kinds of deliveries, the control right and residual claim of the people’s commune system were in the state’s hand, these cadres at grass-level could not design any reasonable incentive mechanism to encourage peasants to work hard and produce according to reasonable natural condition, such as soil, irrigation and farm year. The way left for brigade and team cadres was to punish peasants by struggling against them or maltreatment. But the brigade and team cadres also belonged to members of production teams, they and their families lived in the same community with their subordinates as well, so punishing peasants could also make themselves in trouble. Moreover, under the property rights structure of the commune system, the rest of output was not belong to the commune, brigade or even production team, but to the governments of higher level. This made the supervisors’ effort unrelated to any reward. As a result, even the supervisor himself has not enough incentive to work and shirk himself sometimes. In a word, under such conditions of poor supervision, in which all the work was distributed equally among all members at the lowest level--production team, shirking became every member’s rational choice and further weakening the efficiency of the system (Lin,1990).
De-collectivization
To prevent peasants from slow down, shrinking and escaping in work, and assure the system could keep on moving, the party collected all productive equipments and forbid members in people’s commune engaging in private production and business on the one hand, and at same time deprived peasants’ right of migrating from countryside to city or between districts by means of household registration on the other hand. Nevertheless, such policies had no effect on improving incentive of peasants, but they formed at least political press on very member of people’s commune, because it turned out that everyone’s only routine is to stay in the commune and finish one’s task. Without the right to leave or get better than others, peasants commonly chose to work with little effort, e.g. a passive method, to evade production tasks assigned by leader. Little accumulation and shirking made countryside widely fall into poverty , rare rural region had good conditions to develop industry or to improve commerce, infrastructures went worse, productivity sank quickly. The most serious crisis for agricultural collectivization happened between 1959 and 1961. GNP decreased from 213.8 billion Yuan in 1958 to 180.0 billion Yuan in 1962, with an average annual reduction of 15.1% in gross industrial production value and an average annual reduction of 19.3% in gross agricultural production value from 1958 to 1960. Owing to the serious shortage of food, a great famine took place in the whole country and at least 30 million residents died (Tan, 2000). Discontent with such system broke out, in some areas, peasants didn’t want to relied so heavily on orders from above and made so little allowance for local conditions or local initiative. The severe crisis forced the Party to adjust their policies. From 1961 on, commune functions were reduced to administration and co-ordination, production team was confirmed as the basic unit of accounting, certain production decision making was delegated to production teams, which were allowed to retain some income to overcome problems of egalitarianism; households again allowed to have small private plots and sidelines for planting vegetables, and a limited opening markets for transaction between urban and rural areas. However, these adjustments didn’t mean to change the system of people’s commune, but only to prevent peasants from rebel. From 1966 to 1976 China suffered the disaster of Cultural Revolution , there were large institutional swings took place in this period, in which co-operative moved from small to large and from team to brigade to commune again, local free markets, sidelines and private plots was prohibited again, and political factors had a great influence on production decisions.
In late 1970s, after the Leader Chairman Mao passed away, the requirement for improving agricultural productivity came alive. Administrators in provincial-level units with extensive regions of low yields and consequent low standards of living began experimenting with new forms of tenure and production. To avoid frontal conflicts of wide scope with government’s policies and the main ideology, a gradual approach was adopted. The first step of reform was to divide the production team into groups and to fix yield quotas for each group. Each group signed a contract with production team, the contractual items included the conditions of using land, laborers, farm tools and draft animals, the expenditure, labor contribution, rewards for excessive labor contribution and so on. After completing the tasks assigned by the production team, the output could be distributed among work groups according to their labor quotas. And then, the further solution was put forward, namely the typical form of fixing quotas called “all-round contract”, which was initiated by a few brave peasant secretly in Fengyang county of Anhui province. this contract regulated, household was allowed to cultivated a certain parcel farmland in the group, if grain quotas assigned by the state and the collective accumulation were accomplished, the household could own all the residual output. In the light of the contract, peasants were given directly stimulation to produce. The experiment was deemed successful and popular, and it soon spread to all districts.
At another side, political situation was appropriate with the reform form below. In the Eleventh National Party Congress, held August 12- 18, 1977 proclaimed the formal end of the Cultural Revolution, blamed it entirely on the Gang of Four , and reiterated that "the fundamental task of the party in the new historical period is to build China into a modern, powerful socialist country by the end of the twentieth century." The reformer Deng Xiaoping was elected as vice chairman and back to political stage and suggested a series of reform plans, though many contradictions still were apparent, change of policy was regarded as necessary. Rehabilitations of Deng's associates and others sympathetic to these reform plans were stepped up. Not only were some of those purged during the Cultural Revolution returned to power, but also individuals who had fallen from favor as early as the mid-1950s were rehabilitated. It was a time of increased political activism.
In November 1980, the Central Committee of Communist Party of China issued the document Some Issues of Further Reinforcing and Improving the Responsibility System in Agricultural Production. This article manifest the first time that the Party accepted the production responsibility systems developing in practice. In the document fixed output quotas of farmland for each group and responsibility contracts in some specialized obligations were indicated, at the same time, the fixed output quotas for household was also regarded as positive. Under the encouragement of government’s policy and related support measures, plenty of production responsibility systems developed very rapidly in rural areas. In 1981, a wide deeper reform called fixing the contribute quote for each household (bao gan dao hu), which was much more radical, was implemented. In accordance to the system, all collective lands in production teams were to be distributed among households based on their population or laborers. The households could manage the lands, made production decisions by themselves, and bore the results. When tasks assigned by upper government and the collective accumulation, e.g. a certain quantity of grain and livestock, were completed, the remained products could be owned by the households and not distributed among members in the production team. Moreover, if the household made sure that they have enough ration, they had right to sell the left grain to state owned agricultural enterprises or consume them as they want, usually feeding livestock or making wine for example. That meant the model from Fengyang was finally admitted by Party. In October 1983, the Party and the State Counsel issued the document Notice of Separating the Co-operative from Politics and Setting Up the Township Government and required the cooperative to separate from local government. The act ordered that the people's communes were replaced by administrative townships. By the end of 1984, 98% of production teams had taken the reform of Household Responsibility System. It was until then, the collectivization system was dismantled completely.
Some Characters of De-collectivization and Problems left
No restitution
Yet, de-collectivization and the implement of the household responsibility system is neither a reform of the ownership of land nor a process of privatization. As we have mentioned above, after the Communist Party set up its own government in 1949, it started land reform and distributed lands to the poor from landlords and rich peasants. Peasant acquired parcels of land according to the labor forces, then land were registered under name of each household. Before the eve of collectivization, most of lands in rural China were legally privately owned. But when de-collectivization began, peasants did not get back their former lands again. The household responsibility system only distribute the right of manage and benefit of lands among households according to their population or laborers. So, the de-collectivization in China did not like that in most of East European countries such as Bulgaria, Czech, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, but like that in Albania. That is to say, there was no restitution of land. However, in former East European Countries, whether restitution was implemented or not, the de-collectivization had symbiosis with privatization. In China, although during the process of de-collectivization there were in reality some opinions that lands should be restituted, such voices were not accepted, nor even discussed.
The reasons why restitution of land in the de-collectivization of rural China did not happen may lie in some historic reasons. First of all, although peasants in China had private ownership over lands before the collectivization, large percent of peasants owned farmlands that did not belong to them before, they obtain them from political transformation. Theoretically, violence can’t consist the legal reason of transfer of ownership over real estate, therefore even after the terrorize during the land reform at beginning of 1950s, the private ownership of lands, which was made out by the communist government, had not yet became stable and commonly accepted. However, the former landlord class had rooted off during the political movement, land contacts and register books of land title had been destroyed, no one dare to challenge the power of Communist Party anymore. Since the collectivization began soon after the land reform, the new established owner relationship was broken again, when de-collectivization came about, without supports from the central government, most of peasants only took the household responsibility system as another chance of equally distributing lands, just like the land reform in 1949. As to descendants of former landlord class, they might have not forgotten the experience of their poor ancestors’: claiming private right before the Party which regarding public ownership as universal truth is a dangerous deal.
Secondly, different from most country in former communist east European countries , in which farmers’ nominal ownership of lands was remained, even though their lands were requisitioned in collective farms without any payment, and so that it was easy for peasants in these countries to take back the land when the collective farms went over. On the contrary, in China, private ownership of land was totally abolished as soon as the people’s commune system was set up, after 20 years, the collective ownership had already fest basis. As a result, the transaction costs of restitution so high as to wipe it out. That means, even a peasant want to take back the former farmland which belonged to them, it’s very hard to him to collect the relevant evidences to support his claim, moreover, there was no legal justice process to support such application. So normal farmer would rather to accept the Household Responsibility System.
Finally, the key reason lies in the socialism system itself. Even though the Communist Party of had poor performance in leading the country and its people to wealth and happiness during socialist revolution, Chinese people have taken socialism as the characteristic of the country for grant, after all the slogan “ Socialism saved China” has been deeply impressed. So that even after the Culture Revolution, most people still propped up the Party. The Party led the rural reform and decided the de-collectivization. However, the reform is a “liberation of the rural productivity”, which suit the requirement of the Party. Because the Chinese Communist Party insisted that his mission is to realize socialism, and socialism is based on public ownership system. Collective ownership was deemed as one form of public ownership in rural regions, so that as China kept on the road of realizing socialism, “land in rural areas belong to collective” was certainly remained after rural reform, and regulated in the Constitution of 1982, which is valid till now.
At the time of de-collectivization, the dissolution of people’s commune and the wide implement of responsibility system were regard as a great innovation. According to the statistic, The Household Responsibility System did bring about a more prosperous agriculture in China. From 1978 to 1984, grain output in China increased at an annual average rate of 5% and the gross value of agriculture by 7.7% (Lin, 1997). In contrast with former European countries, the de-collectivization seems bring more benefit to Chinese peasants at beginning. So that at that time, rare peasant did realize that such a reform without transformation of ownership was incompletely. However, The natural shortcomings of the de-collectivization would surely bring a series of problems.
institutional problem: land distribution
As we showed above, the de-collectivization ran smoothly and the introduction of Household Responsibility System has got a great success, although it could not address everything as only an institutional innovation. After several years of practice, it has been already proved that there are a number of weaknesses and limitations remained from the incompletely de-collectivization. One has to confirm, that the collective ownership and contract system led to the inequity in both economic and political features.
In economic view, during the de-collectivization, farmland was distributed to individual households in form of fragmented farming units. The principle of land distribution was derived directly from collective ownership. Farmland in a village was owned by all of its members collectively. As a result, every member had equal right to claim on distribution of the land according to certain norm, which was based primarily on the size of the peasant family. In reality of China with abundant population and limited land, the amount can be distributed to each household was very small. Moreover, land differed from each other in terms of soil fertility, irrigation conditions, location and so on. In many cases, a household had to obtain pieces of land from each of the grades. as a result, the sum was not only insufficient but also disjointed and scattered around villages. Large areas of cultivated land were wasted in the form of paths and boundaries separating households' contract field. A survey conducted by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture indicated that in 1986, among 7983 sample villages from 29 provinces, average cultivated area per household was 0.466 ha (7 mu) fragmented into 5.85 plots, each plot on average 0.08 ha (1.2 mu) (Ministry of Agriculture of China, 1993) . This fragmented structure of family farming has remained largely untouched after implement of contract system and has detained the possibilities of using relatively advanced mechanical agricultural equipment and infrastructures.
Under such system, farmers turned to be short-term in action. According to the distribute rule of land in household responsibility system, land is to distribute depended only on villager status, babies and villagers' new-comer such as newly married bride from other villages were all eligible claimants, which having equal rights to share equal amounts of land in this village; on the contrary, when a villager left or died, the right of land claim would automatically withdraw. As population increased, villages had to readjust the distribution structure, which further subdivided the farmland . The endless redistribution of farmland resulted in many problems, including: 1) the situation of a small and fragmented farming structure further deteriorated; 2) worrying about the risk of losing their land as well as investment, farmers had little incentives to improve land conservation and agricultural infrastructure - irrigated land, one of the most significant components of agricultural infrastructure in China, remained almost unchanged during the 1980s; 3) farmers over-exploited the soil to pursue short-term profits; 4) the course of land redistribution was also costly, it required labor and time in organization and execution. (Chen, 1999)
Another problem is that farmland was generally badly endowed with the appropriate human capital. Since egalitarianism was the general leading principle rule, which gave little consideration to interfamily differences such as labor capability, education and individual preference . As a result, some large households with a incomplete labor force could have comparably much more land to cultivate, meanwhile other smaller households, above all those specialized in agriculture, could have only inadequate land for full employment. Such kind of problem was much worse in rural areas experiencing rapid township or village industry and urbanization. In those region there was often deterioration in the agricultural labor force since most of capable labors tended not to work at home as a farmer. There were many who did not give priority to cultivation and at times even let the land lie unused. Consequently, the farmland was underutilized .
Upon preceding analyzing, we can see that, in order to pursue egalitarianism on surface in distribution of land, in the process of the de-collectivization sacrificed economic efficiency. Thus, if the land was private, then those difference arouse from distribution will decease after enough time, because the free market will lead to equal efficiency through the choose of market. However, such political background lacked from beginning on, so that the shortcoming of a non-privatization de-collectivization can’t be corrected or even be enlarged because of problem of political system.
One of the main reason is political structure over the collective ownership. First at grass-root level, it was usually the village head, who takes the power to decide distribution since decentralization. So that the cadre family or their relations will surely benefit from the distribution. Having a cadre in the family seems to be a certain prerogative in using their political status to accumulate wealth. At one hand, Village cadres may allocate more fertile parts of the village land to themselves and determined more favorable grain sales quotas for themselves. And also, cadres have more opportunity to build personal relationship with higher level and other important departments, rural credit banks or transportation companies for example, so that they have more chance to obtain material benefit than normal peasants. As we see, most of collective enterprises and private economies in rural areas have tight relationship with local governments, at the basic level, with villager cadres, most rural enterprisers are villager leader themselves. Furthermore, cadres and their relations generally tend to break the policy of birth control, because they are capable to support more family members, and their kin will strengthen their economic and political power in return.
At another hand, though according to the election regulation of rural cadre in china, these village cadre should be elected directly by villagers, who have common interest in the community, this rule has been almost never put into practice. Under one Party system and public ownership system, all important resources are gathered in the Party’s hand, as a result, instead of election, the opinion from higher level plays a significant role, in order to carry ort the policy of Party efficiently. In fact, two factors determine the candidates in appointment of village head, one is the relationship with official of higher level, and the other is kinship. Consequently, cadre family takes all advantages to maintain their power and status through such appointment. So, cadres in rural China don’t represent the benefit of their village members, but the power of the Party as well as the family, there is no possibility for peasants to claim equality or save their from suffering as a peasant.
In a word, after a short flourish in rural China, which came along with the de-collectivization and the implement of Household Responsibility System, most peasants have to face the irrational occupation and distribution system of farmland and the political system, which is impossible to change. Besides there was strict limitation prevent peasants from abandoning their responsible land and rushing into cities, so that the peasants found it is hard to change their situation or turn it more better and free. This may explain why in rural china exists always the tendency of over population but the income of household began to decrease only after less than 10 years from the de-collectivization. As a result, land reform in China has emerged as a difficult issue in rural areas of exchange between social equality and economic efficiency. It seems obvious that since the mid-1980s the wide rural society has been caught in this predicament: where social equality or equity worsened, and at same time economic efficiency held back.. According to statistics, average net income in countryside has been slowed down for years. In 2000, the household average income only reached 272 dollars, but the Gini coefficient in China base in urban and rural areas rose from 0.21 in 1978 to more than 0. 46.

新疆维吾尔自治区著名商标认定和保护办法

新疆维吾尔自治区人民政府


新疆维吾尔自治区人民政府令第102号


  《新疆维吾尔自治区著名商标认定和保护办法》已经2001年7月19日自治区人民政府第15次常务会议讨论通过,现予发布,自2001年10月1日起施行。

                   自治区主席 阿不来提·阿不都热西提
                       2001年7月26日

         新疆维吾尔自治区著名商标认定和保护办法


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第五条 著名商标认定和保护工作由自治区工商行政管理部门负责组织。其他组织和个人不得认定著名商标。
认定著名商标不得收取费用。
第六条 各级人民政府应当采取措施鼓励商标注册人提高商品质量和商标信誉,创立著名商标。
商标注册人应当提高商标意识,制定商标发展战略,争创著名商标。
第七条 申请认定著名商标应当符合下列条件:
(一)商标注册人为自治区行政区域内依法设立的企业、事业单位、社会团体、个体工商户和其他经济组织;
(二)该商标自核准注册之日起,连续使用满三年或者注册虽不满三年但实际使用三年以上的;
(三)使用该商标的商品有完善的质量管理体系,在国家、自治区有关部门组织的产品质量认证监督抽查中质量稳定,产品质量符合有关标准;
(四)使用该商标的商品近三年来销售量和市场占有率在区内同行业中位居前列,售后服务好;
(五)商标注册人未发生过侵犯他人注册商标专用权的行为。
第八条 商标注册人认为其注册商标符合本办法第七条规定的,可以向县级以上工商行政管理部门提出认定著名商标申请,并提供有关资料。
工商行政管理部门应当自收到申请之日起15日内审核完毕。对符合条件的,向自治区工商行政管理部门推荐,不符合条件的不予推荐,退回申请并书面说明理由。
第九条 商标注册人对不予推荐有异议的,可以向自治区工商行政管理部门提出复核申请。
自治区工商行政管理部门应当自收到复核申请之日起20日内作出复核决定,并书面说明理由。
第十条 自治区工商行政管理部门收到推荐的申请材料后,应当在60日内审查完毕。对符合条件的,提交著名商标评审委员会评审;对不符合条件的,退回申请材料并书面说明理由。
第十一条 著名商标评审委员会由自治区工商行政管理部门组织设立,负责著名商标的评审工作。
著名商标评审委员会的人员由经济综合部门、有关协会及专家组成。
第十二条 著名商标评审委员会对申请材料的真实性、准确性进行审查、论证。经评审认为符合条件的,须经评审委员会全体组成人员三分之二以上通过,方可认定。
第十三条 自治区工商行政管理部门应当将著名商标评审委员会拟认定的著名商标通过媒介在自治区范围内公示30日。公示期满无异议的,由自治区工商行政管理部门颁发《新疆著名商标证书》、《新疆著名商标》牌匾,并在指定的报刊公告。
第十四条 著名商标自公告之日起3年内有效。有效期满前3个月内,著名商标所有人可申请延续,每次延续的有效期为3年。
第十五条 著名商标所有人可以在其核定使用的商品及其包装、装潢、说明或者广告宣传、展览等活动中使用“新疆著名商标”字样。
未被认定著名商标的,不得使用“新疆著名商标”字样。
第十六条 任何单位和个人不得擅自使用被认定为新疆著名商标的商品特有的名称、包装、装潢或者与其近似的名称、包装、装潢。
第十七条 著名商标所有人,可以向自治区工商行政管理部门申请在其企业名称中直接冠用“新疆”字样。
第十八条 自治区工商行政管理部门向国家工商行政管理部门推荐驰名商标时,应当从著名商标中推荐。
第十九条 著名商标自认定之日起,他人使用可能引起公众误认的与新疆著名商标相同或者近似的文字作为其企业名称的,工商行政管理部门不予核准登记。
第二十条 著名商标所有人许可他人使用其注册商标的,应当自签订商标使用许可合同之日起30日内报自治区工商行政管理部门备案。
著名商标所有人变更地址和其他注册事项的,应当自变更之日起30日内,向自治区工商行政管理部门备案。
第二十一条 著名商标所有人有下列情形之一的,由自治区工商行政管理部门撤销其著名商标资格,并予以公告:
(一)弄虚作假,或者以不正当手段骗取著名商标的;
(二)在产品中掺杂、掺假,以假充真,以次充好,或者以不合格产品冒充合格产品,损害消费者或者用户利益的;
(三)在有效期内,丧失了著名商标条件的。
有前款所列行为的,任何单位和个人均可以向自治区工商行政管理部门提出撤销著名商标的建议。
第二十二条 违反本办法应当给予行政处罚的其他行为,依照有关法律、法规和规章的规定处罚。
第二十三条 工商行政管理人员、评审委员会组成人员在认定著名商标工作中玩忽职守、滥用职权、徇私舞弊的,由其所在单位或者上级主管部门给予行政处分;构成犯罪的,依法追究刑事责任。
第二十四条 本办法自2001年10月1日起施行。


2001年7月26日

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