城市供销社,主要指的是大中城市供销社的专业经营机构(实质上是专业供销社)所组成的经济联合体。在社会主义初级阶段,城市供销社有它的独特功能,认识这种功能,为了发挥这种功能而再造城市供销社,在当前经济体制改革和商品经济发展中有重要的现实意义。我们在调查苏南农村时发现:广大农民不仅需要在农村流通领域建立自己的合作经济组织。而且需要在城市流通领域建立自己的合作经济组织,真正把握城乡商品交换的自主权,逐步把分散的家庭生产与社会的大市场联结起来,使农村的生产力提高到一个新的水平。目 The urban supply and marketing cooperatives mainly refer to the economic consortium formed by professional operating agencies (substantially professional supply and marketing cooperatives) of supply and marketing cooperatives in large and medium-sized cities. In the initial stage of socialism, the city supply and marketing cooperatives have its unique features. Recognizing this function and recreating the urban supply and marketing cooperatives in order to exert this function have important practical significance in the current economic system reform and commodity economic development. When we investigated rural areas in southern Jiangsu, we discovered that the vast majority of farmers need not only establish their own cooperative economic organizations in rural circulation. Moreover, it is necessary to establish its own cooperative economic organization in the urban circulation field, truly grasp the autonomy of urban and rural commodity exchange, and gradually link the decentralized family production with the large social market, so that the rural productivity will be raised to a new level. Head