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China and the first five year plan. Haifa Al Sudairy. Mao’s economic aims. Mao wanted China to a great military power. A problem facing that is that China is power, and 90% of its population was peasant farmers.
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China and the first five year plan Haifa Al Sudairy
Mao’s economic aims • Mao wanted China to a great military power. A problem facing that is that China is power, and 90% of its population was peasant farmers. • Therefore Mao developed the five year plan to restore and develop the Chinese industry and farming.
Mao’s economic reform plan: • Farming : - 1950: Land reform Act - 1952: Mutual aim team - 1953 – CO-OPERATIVE FARMS - 1955 – COLLECTIVE FARMS • Industry - 1953-1957 ( First five year plan ) - (EXPANSION OF HEAVY INDUSTRIES: IRON + STEEL, COAL, MACHINERY )
The second five year plan: 1958-1963 (The great leap forward) 1. THE ‘BACKYARD’ STEEL CAMPAIGN 2. Extreme communist life style 3. Communes
Heavy industries: - Is what a country needs to develop before expanding and creating a strong and powerful economy. And that is reach by increasing the fooling: - Iron - Steel - Coal - Cement - Chemical Fertilizer The steel works at Anshan in Manchuria, built in the 1950s
Heavy industries • Mao choose to develop the heavy industries first, because he believed in the idea the industry was the base of a strong economy and his five year plan had to show that.
Organization of the “Five year plan” Private businesses and industries are taken over and run by the national government – state control. NATIONALISATION - All decisions about the economy are decided by the central [national] government. CENTRAL PLANNING - To increase output the government sets production ‘targets’ which have to be met within a 5 year time span. TARGETS / QUOTAS - To encourage workers [and supervisors] to work harder to reach the targets set, ‘incentives’ are offered eg. bigger food ration, better apartment, better schooling for their children. INCENTIVES -
Message of the picture… Is that communist Russia and communist China are close friends. And that Russia is China mentor at this point, and that it is great advice that can be taken from Russia.
Bibliography: By W. A. Boyce