A Five-Year Plan And A Hundred Flowers-14 Flashcards
What did Mao say were the most precious in the world?
People
Some miracles need money and who did Mao ask for money?
USSR
What happened when he met Stalin
- Treaty Of Friendship and Mutual Assistance
- 300 Million dollars over the next 5 years
- 10 000 engineers and planning experts to help China’s economy
Why did they draw up a five year plan?
To develop the economy
What did the plan prioritize?
Heavy industry such as steel,coal and machinery
The centre piece being nearly ____ new production plants in central China and Manchuria.
700
What industry was neglected during this time? What were consequences of this?
Light industry and people had to put up with only a slow growth in their living standards and in the availability of consumer goods.
The government, however, did not want to leave land reform at that stage. For a start, most peasants farms were too small to farm _________ meaning that they could not increase food output to the level needed for the 5 year plan. Second the government feared if the peasants kept their plots of land they would become a new ______ in ______.
Efficiently
Class
Society
What were lower stage co-operatives?
Group of families, about 30-50 families, who combine their land and labour to make one bigger, more efficient farm. The families would still own the land but just a permanent loan to the co-operative and each family was paid rent for its use.
What were higher-stage co-operatives?
Consisted of 200 to 300 families. Families were not paid rent for the use of their land. Allowed to keep only a few square meters for their personal us. Had to surrender title deeds to their land.
By the end of 1956, _____ out of every 100 peasant families had joined higher-stage cooperatives. Most of the 300 Million peasants who had received land in 1950 were therefore ________ again.
95
Landless
What were the effects of the five year plan?(3)
- City population rose by 40 Million causing Overcrowding
- Food shortages
- Housing problems
What was the hundred flower Campaign?
When Mao Zedong allowed anybody to say anything about the Communist Party and its policies and its leaders. He believed that we should let hundred flowers bloom meaning that free speech and argument were healthy and should b encouraged.
What made the hundred flower Campaign?
People brutally criticizing Mao himself and his policies. Five year plan was also criticized and Party leaders and officials were criticized for being corrupt or inefficient.
