{{Short description|Former rural administrative division of the People's Republic of China}} thumb|250px|Canteen where people could eat for free in 1958.
A '''production brigade''' ({{zh|t=生產大隊|s=生产大队|p=shēngchǎn dàduì}}) was formerly the basic accounting and farm production unit in the people's commune system of the People's Republic of China.
In late 1960, the unit of accounting through which labor and income were allocated was devolved from the people's commune to the production brigade.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Harrell |first=Stevan |title=An Ecological History of Modern China |date=2023 |publisher=University of Washington Press |isbn=978-0-295-75171-9 |location=Seattle}}</ref>{{Rp|page=139}} In many cases, these brigades corresponded to the high level agricultural producers' cooperatives that had preceded the people's communes.<ref name=":3" />{{Rp|page=139}}
In 1962, the unit of account was further devolved to the production team, which remained the unit of account until agricultural was totally decollectivized between 1979 and 1982.<ref name=":3" />{{Rp|page=139}}
==See also== *Work unit *Administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China
==References== {{reflist}} {{Country study}} [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cntoc.html]
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