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In the late 1970s, Deng Xiaoping allowed farmers in which Anhui village to secretly divide collective land among households—a local experiment that was soon adopted nationally as the 'household responsibility system'?

Answer: Xiaogang — Xiaogang village's 18 farmers signed a secret pact in 1978 risking execution if discovered: they divided the communal land and kept surplus production—the following year's harvest exceeded the previous five years combined.

Xiaogang village's 18 farmers signed a secret pact in 1978 risking execution if discovered: they divided the communal land and kept surplus production—the following year's harvest exceeded the previous five years combined.

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