3.2 Changes in Industry

Question 1

Aim of First five year plan

Answer 1

Rapid expansion of heavy industry, coal, iron, steel and petrolium

Question 2

Achievements of first five year plan

Answer 2

Coal production increased
Electric power production tripled
Steel production quadrupled

Question 3

Aim of second five year plan (great leap forward)

Answer 3

Overtake Britain as an industrial power in under 15 years

Question 4

Why did Mao believe great leap forward would work

Answer 4

Believed anything could be achieved with will
Communist superiority
Enough food
China could increase agriculture and industry at same time

Question 5

How great leap forward was implemented

Answer 5

Collectivisation
Backyard furnaces
Involvement

Question 6

Positive effects

Answer 6

11 million tons of steel produced
Huge rise in production

Question 7

Negative effects

Answer 7

Collectivisation died
Food and industrial production dropped
Soviet experts left