Chapter 5 Flashcards
Dents aims
Modernise teh Chinese economy
Develop trade with the outside world
Encourage foreign investment into China
Dents changes in agriculture
Commune was replaced with Xiang which was the original village or township
Each xiang had a quota to reach that it had to supply to the state but individuals were allowed to sell any excess they made for profit
Household responsibility
Farmers were allowed to focus on selling the type of crop that grew the bets in their area
Agriculture production increased rapidly
Changes in education deng
University entrance exams were reintroduced
Private universities were allowed
Chinese students were encouraged to travel to teh west for university
Readership institutes were reopened
The intention was to develop high skilled workers who would play a role in modernising technical china
Changes in industry deng
Encouraged foreign investment
Wanted to develop high quality and cheaper goods
Deng birth control
Chinas population had expanded rapidly
One child policy
Financial penalties if broken
Permits required to give birth
State could order late term abortions for women who became pregnant with a second child
Increase of female infanticide
Dengs opposition to political reform
Hard line communist in politics:
Rejected multi party system
CCP kept leading role
No free elections
No freedom of speech
Declined democracy
The democracy wall
There was a long brick wall in tinamen square where people pinned their views on what was happening in China
At first Deng liked the wall but as he revived more Criticism he did not
The origins of the democracy movement
Students liked western ideas
Wei jingsheng stood for democracy in China
Staertwd mass movements of democracy
Aims and features of students protests in tinamen square
Students lived in poor conditions
Students angry about controls government put on their education
Wanted multi party and democracy
Saw the CCP as corrupt
The react of Deng and the CCP
Traditional members angry
General secretary showed sympathy
He was sacked by Deng
Censorship was tightened further stopped protests briefly led to bigger ones the year later
Tinamen square 1989
Hu yaobang -general secretary died of a heat attack
Students remembers how he had been sacked and in his honour they gathered in large groups in tanenmen square
Teh students organised sit ins and had begun hunger strike
Deng declared martial law in China
Non students joined the protest
Sent in army and tanks killed loads of people
