Deng Xiaoping's "Rural Responsibility System

Deng Xiaoping's "rural responsibility system"

A) encouraged rural peasants to move to urban areas.
B) demanded that farmers join agricultural communes.
C) allowed peasants to lease land from agricultural collectives and sell their surpluses on the private market.
D) gave all of China's peasants privately-owned farms.
E) sent unemployed urban workers to the countryside as agricultural laborers.