SizeSourceRestrictionsConfiguration
200,000 yuan per village (2009) to 400,000 to 800,000 (2018)Public (tax-funded)Can be used for capital, Can be used for programmaticMultiple pots
Loans up to 7 times the fund, 8-year termPublic (tax-funded)Can be used for capitalMultiple pots
About US$ 2 per urban resident a year (2018)Public (tax-funded)—Multiple pots
Maker’s note · curator

Each village has its own pot, paid from the municipal and county budgets and booked in a dedicated village account. The floor was at least 200,000 yuan per village per year from 2009 (Zhuang, Jiang and Huang, Chen Yiyuan, Wang, Sun Ping), with He and Gui giving 200,000 to 300,000 and the vice-mayor saying some villages got 300,000 depending on population and land; the allocation varies by village population (Wang, Chen Yiyuan). Zhuang reports a minimum above 50,000 USD and a maximum around 85,000 USD in 2012; Chen Yiyuan reports the floor raised to 400,000 yuan in 2013 and, in 2018, about 400,000 in ordinary villages and at least 800,000 in a pilot township, with one village at 860,000; Frenkiel reports 400,000 to 800,000 yuan in 2016 to 2018. Citywide, Jiang and Huang put the municipal and county outlay at 712 million yuan a year in 2009; Zhuang at about 365.5 million USD over 2009 to 2011 and more than 170 million USD a year by 2013; Cabannes 2018 at over 1.2 billion USD since 2008, around 10 USD per rural inhabitant per year. What the money may fund is known only from researchers' summaries of the regulation: Zhuang lists four categories (education and recreation facilities; roads, drainage, irrigation and water; agricultural training; village welfare such as patrols, sanitation and waste), Jiang and Huang seven categories with 59 items, and in practice by 2018 most of it paid sanitation contracts, patrol stipends, reserve cadres and street lighting (Chen Yiyuan). Cash distribution to households is excluded (Zhuang), productive or business use is forbidden, and funds may not be diverted or moved between villages (Wang). Villages may also pledge the annual fund to borrow up to seven times its value from the city investment company for infrastructure, repaying from the next years' funds at 2 percent interest with the rest subsidised (Wang; Zhuang says 8 years, the Spanish chapter 7). Urban communities received funds under different rules from late 2013; only the per-head order of magnitude is reported. The primary regulation was not available.

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