China AOS2 Statistics

Question 1

PLA Deaths in Korean War

Answer 1

500,000

Question 2

PLA Troops in Korea War

Answer 2

2 million

Question 3

Inflation Rates - 1949 vs 1951

Answer 3

85,000% in 1949 vs 15% in 1951

Question 4

Number of Landlords Executed in Fanshen Campaign

Answer 4

at least 1 million

Question 5

Life Expectancy 1949 vs 1957 vs 1975

Answer 5

35 years (1949) vs 57 years (1957) vs 63 years (1975)

Question 6

Number of Businesses Investigated During Wufan (Five Antis)

Answer 6

450,000

Question 7

Number of New Industrial Enterprises Built (First Five Year Plan)

Answer 7

700

Question 8

Increase in Overall Annual Production (First Five Year Plan)

Answer 8

10-16%

Question 9

Increase in Annual Agricultural Production (First Five Year Plan)

Answer 9

4%

Question 10

Percentage of Peasants in Cooperatives by December 1956 (after High Tide)

Answer 10

97%

Question 11

Number of ‘Rightists’ Sent to Countryside for Reeducation (Hundred Flowers Campaign)

Answer 11

300,000-400,000

Question 12

Quota of Rightists to be Exposed at Institutions (Hundred Flowers Campaign)

Answer 12

5%

Question 13

Number of Agricultural Cooperatives Reorganised by End of 1958

Answer 13

740,000 coops into 26,000 people’s communes

Question 14

Size of People’s Commune

Answer 14

5,000 Households or 100,000 people

Question 15

Reported vs Actual Harvest 1959

Answer 15

500 million tonnes (reported) vs 170 million tonnes (actual)

Question 16

Reported vs Actual Harvest 1958

Answer 16

450 million tonnes (reported) vs 200 million tonnes (actual)

Question 17

Number of Deaths in Three Bad Years Famine

Answer 17

30 million (!)

Question 18

Number of Copies of the Little Red Book Printed

Answer 18

40 billion (15 for every person in China)

Question 19

Number of Mao Portraits Produced

Answer 19

2.2 Billion

Question 20

Number of Deaths in Faction Fighting 1966-1968

Answer 20

650,000

Question 21

Number of Red Guards at First Rally in Tiananmen Square (August 1966)

Answer 21

Over a million

Question 22

Number of Regional Party Cadres Purged in Cultural Revolution

Answer 22

70-80%

Question 23

Number of Students Sent to the Countryside in ‘Up to the Mountains, Down to the Countryside’ campaign

Answer 23

17 million

Question 24

Fanshen redistributed….

Answer 24

….40% of China’s cultivated land to 60% of the population.

Question 25

Steel Output 1952 vs 1957

Answer 25

1.3 million tonnes (1952) vs 4.5 million tonnes (1957)

Question 26

First Five Year Plan Budget Allocation

Answer 26

89% to heavy industry; 11% to manufacturing