The paper discusses the national construction of the Chinese farmers' work from the perspective of the modern state construction. It holds that the farmers' work has experienced a change process that is from selfemployment to collective work and to arrive at self- employment again from the day of the building of the new China. The essence of this process is construction and adjustment in the relation of the state and the farmers. The state integrates labor force "the basic resources" into the country system by working collectively. But "th...