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Peoples Republic of China (1949-1963) (1949 PRC Established (2nd 5 Year…

- - - - It was a Taking land from the Land lords and giving it to the peasents
      - 1 Million landlords were beaten
      - Peasants Now Support Moa even More
    - - Consists of 10 or more households
    - - The Land was still owned by the peasants but was run by APC's.so they could get more animals and equipment
      - It was encouraged by Mao because he believed it would increase production of food
      - The APC's were managed centrally and were told to grow particular things
    - - 2000-3000 households
      - NO Private ownership
      - All Land and Equipment were owned by the Collectives
      - Mao believed that the peasants were harming his effort to industrialise China.
      - By the end of 1958 700 million people had been placed in Collectives
  - - - It stated in 1953 and went on till 1957
      - China was a land rich in natural resources that could be exploited
      - Rapid Expansion of Coal, iron, steel and petroleum
      - Some things that came out was the Rail bridge over the Yangzi River
      - What happened
        
        Coal Production doubles
        
        Electric power production increased by three times its previous level
        
        Steel production increased by four times the previous level
    - - At the 8th party congress in May 1958 Lui Shaoqi called upon the people to change China overnight
        
        Mao was enthusiastic and said that in 15 years China would overtake Britain as an industrial power
        
        Reasons for the Great Leap
        
        Mao desired to continue the industrial progress started in the first 5 year plan
        
        Mao wanted to bring an end on China's dependence of the Soviet Union to develop their industry
        
        Mao's enthusiasm and faith that anything could be done if the will to succeed existed
        
        The belief the socialism was superior to capitalism driven by Soviet achievements
        
        The collectivisation of agriculture would provide sufficient food to feed the expanding work force and surplus to sell abroad and buy machinery
        
        Key Features of The Great Leap Forward
        
        The involvement of the whole population to achieve targets
        
        Backyard furnaces- the whole of China was involved in the campaign to produce steel as many as 600,000 furnaces were set up in backyards.
        
        Privately owned businesses were taken over by the state this allowed the CCP to control what was produced by the industries
        
        Massive Projects- Giant bridges, canals and dams were constructed. The Chinese newspaper praised the communist achievements
- - - - The peasants no longer had a reason to produce more food than would meet there immediate needs
      - They could not sell there extra food for profit
    - - Mao launched a campaign to get rid of sparrows flies and mosquitoes and rats because they ate the crop
      - The peasants were encouraged to make as much noise as possible to scare the birds
      - This led to the number of caterpillars increasing because no birds were there to eat them, this led to more crop being eaten
    - - Mao believed the poor scientific claims of the Soviet scientists who said they developed methods to increase grain production. by 16 times the traditional methods
      - Peasants who tried to use traditional methods were denounced by communists officials as enemies of the state
    - - Communists officials did not dare speak out about the failures of production
      - They lied about the production to try impress Moa
    - - There was a drought in the north which effected the flooding and harvesting in the south