Establishing communist control Flashcards
How many delegates were communist in CPPCC
16 out of 662
3 Branches of government
Communist party, Central people’s government and the PLA
How many party members by the end of 1950
5.8 million
What was government organised with
According to democratic centralism
PLA responsible for
Suppression of bandits, reunification campaigns,
How many joining PLA by 1955
800,000 a year
Regional bureaux
PRC divided into 6 regions governed by regional party bureaux: ensured military control
March 1950: campaign to suppress anti-revolutionaries
1/1000 killings in each area, 46,000 bandits killed, police raided 16 cities and arrested 17,000, 220 killed in Hubei
Three antis campaign
Against waste, corruption and bureaucracy
Former employees imprisoned, party purge, 30,000 attended denunciations
Five Antis campaign
Against tax evasion, bribery, economic information form state, theft: seize control of economic assets
99% businessmen guilty, mass matings, denunciation boxes and tiger beasts (gathered evidence)
100 flowers campaign
Let 100 flowers bloom and 100 schools contend
died at rightists
500,000 to Laogai, up to 700,000 purged
Invasion of Tibet
Remove threat of buddhism
60,000 resisted invasion- executed
Troops entered Lhasa Nov 1950
wiping out Tibetan identity
Migration of Han Chinese
Population in Tibet rose from 3 million to 10 million
Migrants would marginalise indigenous population
Wiping out traditions and customs
Xinjiang
Uighurs: muslim population in China
March 1950: migration of Han Chinese
Guangdong
28,000 executed in Guangong during campaign to suppress anti-revolutionaries
