In December 1978, 18 farmers in Xiaogang Village, Fengyang, Anhui signed a "contract" with their fingerprints on a land-to-household contract. A year later, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency wrote a set of "internal references" about Xiaogang Village and sent it to the central leadership. Since then, Xiaogang Village has become the "birthplace" of China's rural reform. In fact, the real birthplace of China's rural reform is not in Xiaogang Village, but in a more remote and remote mountainous village—Zaoshu Village in Taizhou, Zhejiang. The distribution of farmland to households and large-scale contracting here are earlier, wider and more thorough than those in Xiaogang Village, and the struggle they have endured is more intense and painful.

Zaoshu Village and Taizhou farmers should be the real birthplace and vanguard of China's rural reform! The history of China's reform and opening up will rewrite this important event.