China AOS2 Statistics Flashcards
PLA Deaths in Korean War
500,000
PLA Troops in Korea War
2 million
Inflation Rates - 1949 vs 1951
85,000% in 1949 vs 15% in 1951
Number of Landlords Executed in Fanshen Campaign
at least 1 million
Life Expectancy 1949 vs 1957 vs 1975
35 years (1949) vs 57 years (1957) vs 63 years (1975)
Number of Businesses Investigated During Wufan (Five Antis)
450,000
Number of New Industrial Enterprises Built (First Five Year Plan)
700
Increase in Overall Annual Production (First Five Year Plan)
10-16%
Increase in Annual Agricultural Production (First Five Year Plan)
4%
Percentage of Peasants in Cooperatives by December 1956 (after High Tide)
97%
Number of ‘Rightists’ Sent to Countryside for Reeducation (Hundred Flowers Campaign)
300,000-400,000
Quota of Rightists to be Exposed at Institutions (Hundred Flowers Campaign)
5%
Number of Agricultural Cooperatives Reorganised by End of 1958
740,000 coops into 26,000 people’s communes
Size of People’s Commune
5,000 Households or 100,000 people
Reported vs Actual Harvest 1959
500 million tonnes (reported) vs 170 million tonnes (actual)
Reported vs Actual Harvest 1958
450 million tonnes (reported) vs 200 million tonnes (actual)
Number of Deaths in Three Bad Years Famine
30 million (!)
Number of Copies of the Little Red Book Printed
40 billion (15 for every person in China)
Number of Mao Portraits Produced
2.2 Billion
Number of Deaths in Faction Fighting 1966-1968
650,000
Number of Red Guards at First Rally in Tiananmen Square (August 1966)
Over a million
Number of Regional Party Cadres Purged in Cultural Revolution
70-80%
Number of Students Sent to the Countryside in ‘Up to the Mountains, Down to the Countryside’ campaign
17 million
Fanshen redistributed….
….40% of China’s cultivated land to 60% of the population.
Steel Output 1952 vs 1957
1.3 million tonnes (1952) vs 4.5 million tonnes (1957)
First Five Year Plan Budget Allocation
89% to heavy industry; 11% to manufacturing
