Editing Work unit (section)

== ''Danwei'' system ==
Institutions such as industrial factories, schools and hospitals, and government departments are all part of the ''danwei'' system.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|last=Lin|first=Kevin|chapter=Work Unit|date=2019-06-25|publisher=ANU Press|isbn=978-1-78873-476-9|doi=10.22459/acc.2019.53|title=Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi|doi-access=free}}</ref> Among them, the heavy industrial work units, commonly viewed as the prototype of the socialist workplace, were granted priority for resources. During the Maoist era, the work unit served as multifunctional urban institutions that encompassed various aspects of urban livelihoods. ''Danwei'' contained facilities for work and daily living, including production facilities, offices, residential areas, social services, child-care facilities, dry goods stores, public toilets, bath houses, meeting rooms, clubs for retirees, and sports courts and fields.<ref name=":12">{{Cite book |last=Harrell |first=Stevan |title=An Ecological History of Modern China |publisher=[[University of Washington Press]] |year=2023 |isbn=9780295751719 |location=Seattle}}</ref>{{Rp|page=310}} Larger ''danwei'' might have schools or in-patient healthcare clinics.<ref name=":12" />{{Rp|page=310}} Workers' benefits were only partly in the form of wages, with significant benefits coming in the form of state-provided services and the like.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Russo |first=Alessandro |url= |title=Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture |date=2020 |publisher=[[Duke University Press]] |isbn=978-1-4780-1218-4 |location=Durham, NC |pages=253 |oclc=1156439609}}</ref> Therefore, work units provided essential social resources to its members when the market economy had not yet fully developed. The industrial ''danwei'' was a state institution.<ref name=":1" />

Among the goals that state planners sought to advance through constructing ''danwei'' as part of [[Urbanization in China|China's urbanization]] was the development of a socialist citizenry with a [[Proletariat|proletarian]] consciousness.<ref name=":132">{{Cite book |last=Simpson |first=Tim |title=Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China's Consumer Revolution |date=2023 |publisher=[[University of Minnesota Press]] |isbn=978-1-5179-0031-1 |series=Globalization and Community series |location=Minneapolis}}</ref>{{Rp|page=24}} In the ''danwei'', urban Chinese lived and worked together in a collective and egalitarian environment.<ref name=":132" />{{Rp|page=59}}