April 2006 Farmer’s Professional Associations in Rural China: State Dominated or New State-Society Partnerships? Minggao Shen Research Fellow Center for Chinese Economic Research, Peking University Scott Rozelle Professor Deparment of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis Linxiu Zhang and Jikun Huang Deputy Director and Director Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Institute for Geographical Sciences and Natural Resource Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences The comments of Achim Foch, Murray Fulton, Stephen Mink and Bernie Sontagg are gratefully acknowledged. Luo Renfu, Li Qiang, Liu Haomiao, Kang Xia, Liu Chengfang and other CCAP staff and students collected, entered and cleaned the data and their assistance was invaluable. We also got help during the design of the survey and training of the enumerators from Lin Yuxian, Tao Ran and Liu Jian. We would like to thank the financial support of the Ford Foundation, CIDA, the World Bank and the Trust for the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development (funded by Norway and Finland and administered by the World Bank). Rozelle is a member of the Giannini Foundation.