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- - - - 7000 party members criticised Mao- Mao stepped down as President in 1959. However, Peng Dehuai was also removed from office and replaced with the Maoist Lin Biao.
      - Failure of the GLF
        
        40 million dead
        
        3/4 million backayrd furnaces, 40% meta usage
    - - Deng Xiaoping
        
        May 7 Cadre Camp and Tractor factory.
        
        Dismissed
        
        8 million deficit to 1 million surplus, 30% of farms working privately.
      - Liu Shaoqi
        
        Arrested after mao employed 70 workers to trawl through 2.5 million documents, but found nohting. Ended up paying an individual to fabricate evidence.
        
        300 red guards camped outside his house and kept up a din to stop him sleeping
        
        Arrested in 1966 and kept in prison- died in prison after being refused medicine.
        
        Claimed that '70% of the GLF was human error'
        
        'Bomb the headquarters of Liu Shaoqi'
      - Peng Dehuai
        
        Arrested in 1959 and replaced with Lin Biao
    - - Hundred flowers campaign of 56-57
      - Anti rightist campaign 57-59
      - Socialist education movement 1962
        
        denounced chinese 'krushchevs' and his First Ten Points
        
        1.6 million cadres descended into the countryside to eliminate embezzlement
  - - - 1200 tombes desecrated
      - 10,000 households looted summer 1966
      - 270 books burnt
    - - Peking university
        
        Nie Yuanzi werites big character poster attacking LU Ping-printed in people's daily
        
        June 16th 60 lecturers are killed.
      - Han Rui dismissed from office- Peng Zhen, mayor of Beijing removed from office.
    - - Big character posters
      - billion Mao badges
      - 720 million copies of the little red book
      - 11 million red guards arrived at Tiananmen square on 18 August to listen to Mao and Lin Biao
  - - - Develop nuclear bomb by 1964
- - - - Beijing's subway line completed in 1969, thousands of new bridges and roads improved rural mobilityy sand movement of materials and goods
      - Grew twice as quickly as India in the period
      - GDP rose 6% annually
      - Between 1966 and 1976 irrigated fields increased by nearly one third- not all effficient
    - - Agricultural production fell by 2%
      - PRC's defiicit increased from 1 billion to 2.25 billion.
      - Industrial production fell by 13.8%
      - Black markets
        
        1971 2/3 of all villagers were independent
        
        Guangdong, 30 markets covered the needs of more than a million people
        
        66% of villagers were independent.
      - Per capita income in 1978 was $859 in 2010 dollars and average calorie consumption was 1,300 per day
  - - - Enabled Deng Xiaoping a blank slate
    - - Exposed deep divisions in the CCP
      - 90% of CCP members came under attack
  - - - Women
        
        more than 90% births in cities, 30% in countryside midwifery.
        
        Marriage Law of 52
      - Healthcare
        
        by 1973 1 million barefoot doctors
        
        2/3 of chinese hospital beds were in the countryside.
        
        Life expectancy frew from 35 in 1949 to 65 in 1980
    - - Education
        
        between 1966 and 1970 130 million chinese young people stopped attending school
        
        1% of population had degrees
        
        11% had received schooling after the age of 16
      - 1952 China one restaurant for 600- 1976 one for every 8000
  - - - 1971 Kissinger visit and Ping Pong diplomacy
      - PRC 1971 admitted into the UN
      - Ted Heath visits 72
      - Nixon visits in 72- first time president visited PRC< ended 25 yearrs of no communication
        
        Signed the Shanghai Communique with Zhou Enlai
      - 1978 Peace and Friendship treaty with Japan.
    - - 1971 china's foreign trade reached a low point of 5% GDP
- - - - 3000 teachers killed, 700 lectuters at Peking university, Qufu sacked, 100,000 households. 39 artists, writers and officals captured at the beijing bureau of culture
      - Wuhan incident and January Storm 1967 conflict between scarlet guards and WGHQ workers.
      - Some red guards co-operated with art owners to fake raids- and instead protect items of cultrural heritage
      - During 2 day period in Daxing county, 300 people clubbed to death in public square.
    - - Tu Yedong's ten indictments 'mindless attacks' - life imprisonment but not execution.
      - Unacknowledged recognition by the party who began to question the CR.
      - Rise of the moderates
        
        Memorial service for Zhou was held in Great Hall of the People and turned into a mass demonstration for moderate policies- 2 milion people- 100s sent to laogais.
        
        Deng brought back in by Zhou Enlai in 1975, but then expelled again in 1976 and blamed for the Tiananmen incident
      - Cancelled the National day parade.