| 1 | Small private plots had existed in China for 2, 000 years. | |
| 2 | house sites and privately farmed plots of cropland and hilly land are also owned by collectives. | |
| 3 | Trees planted by rural inhabitants around their houses and on private plots of cropland and hilly land shall be owned by themselves. | |
| 4 | But any site not on the reservation will need state and federal approval. | |
| 5 | Efforts to stabilize these rural populations with subsistence homesteads, cooperative farming, and small rural industries were not successful. |