China Flashcards
The suporession od couter-revolutionaries campaign
October 1950 - internal threats
28.300 executes in < 1 year
Resist American and Aid korea campaign
October 1950
By the end of he year only soviets remained
Three antis campaign
Manchuria late 1951
-crruption, waste & obstructionist bureocracy
The five antis campaign
Jan 1952
- bribery, tax evasion, theft of state prop, cheating on gov contracts, economic espionage
F.k first 5 years social reforma
1950 marriage law
By 1956 1/2 kids 7-16 were in fulltime educ
Preventive health camp teching about hygiene
First Five year plan 1952-56
-1953-57: 9% growth rate
-1949-57 pp cities 57m-> 100m
-1957 target vs expectation
Oil (200vs140mmt) byclicles(550,000 vs 1m 1200
F.k The Great Leap Forward
From 750,000 cooperarives to 70,000 communes-> 750,000 brigades -> 200 households
Dazhai commune: grain yield went drom 0.75 to 7.5 tn/hect
F.k. The great leap foreward deaths
Tibet’s 20% pop wiped out by starvation
In total off: 15m, estimated: 30m
F.n the great leap foreward
Ec performance
1958->1961
Index of nat. Income: 186-140
Growth of nat income: 22-(-29%)
Inflation 0.2-16.2
F.n. The great leap forward agriculturaly
1958->1961 (million tonnes)
Meat prod. 4,3->1,2
Grain prod 200-> 147
Cultural revolution kickstart
18 August 1966 rally on Tiananmen Square - million participants
Cultural revolution solution
Between 1967 and 1972 over 12 million young pp were sent to the countryside