Political class category defined during land reform in China, referring to poor peasants and those with very little land who were barely self-sufficient.

A middle-class peasant who owns some land and tools but still needs to sell a small amount of labor; refers to the lower tier of the middle-peasant class in political contexts.

relatively wealthy middle peasants who owned enough land to engage in minor exploitation of others; a socio-economic class in the early People's Republic of China

In the context of Chinese rural class classification, a relatively wealthy layer of middle peasants who own land and tools and rely mainly on their own labor but may engage in minor exploitation