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How accurate is it to say that the 1st 5 year plan transformed the…
How accurate is it to say that the 1st 5 year plan transformed the Chinese economy?
It did
Annual growth rate of 9% overall
Industry
Coal was 115% of target
Steel= 129.8% of target
Trucks= 187.5% of target
More people moving to cities, almost doubled by 1957 compared with 1949
workers' living standards improved in terms of wages + job security (at expense of loss of freedom to change jobs or travel
Agriculture
Collectivised by 1956, 88% of peasants
Greater control, ideologically
3.8% per annum growth
APCs, 1952
It didn't
Industry
figures not completely reliable.
education poor. 1957: less than half children under 16
Agriculture
production=low
Mao wanted collectivisation but many APCs had gone into debt and slowdown called 1953
1954- return to capitalist values.
1954- poor harvest, state had to requisition grain as in KW
Aims= industrialise