Summary Mao's China - Economy (Industry and Agriculture)
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Course
Unit 2E.1 - Mao\'s China, 1949-76
Institution
PEARSON (PEARSON)
Written by a Cambridge Law student with an A* at history A-level.
Outlines the different aspects of the economy for both industry and agriculture. This includes issues before Communist rule and the Five Year Plans, including the Great Leap Forward and Recovery.
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Before Communist power gain
- Problems
Industry
o Industry crippled after WW2 + civil war 1949, inflation at 1000% as
GMD borrowed money + output dropped to 25% of pre war level
Solutions
o price stability fully recovery by 1953 by introducing + regulating new
currency
o Industry nationalised after 1949 + attempt to improve productivity by
educating unskilled workforce
1952-57: 1st Five Year Plan (Soviet inspired heavy industry plan)
- Aims
Wanted to become self sufficient industrial powerhouse (both food +
manufactured goods) to protect China in potentially hostile capitalist
world aimed to follow Soviet method of rapid industrialisation +
collectivisation (Mao heavily influenced by Stalinist ‘Short Course’, history
of USSR detailed stages of development)
- Methods
All industry nationalised by 1956
Over 10,000 Soviet civil technicians worked on over 300 major heavy
industrial projects (eg iron + steel, industrial machinery + chemicals)
Financed by food requisitioning from APCs, higher levels of taxation in
cities + loans from USSR (eg $300 million loan to be paid with interest)
- Successes
Over 200 industrial plants built by Soviets (core of China’s new industrial
sector)
Industrial production increased 19% / year, coal production doubled +
steel production quadrupled
Number of lorries increased from virtually zero to 7,500
- Failures
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