Legal basis: Article 8 of the Constitution of People's Republic of China (PRC), rural collective economic organizations implement a two-tier management system based on household contract management and combining unified management with separate management. Various forms of cooperative economy such as production, supply and marketing, credit and consumption in rural areas are the collective ownership economy of socialist working people. Laborers who participate in rural collective economic organizations have the right to operate private plots of land, private hills, family sideline businesses and raise private livestock within the scope prescribed by law. Handicraft, industry, construction, transportation, commerce, service industry and other forms of cooperative economy in cities and towns are all socialist working people's collective ownership economy. The state protects the legitimate rights and interests of urban and rural collective economic organizations and encourages, guides and helps the development of collective economy.