KT2 - Agriculture and Industry Flashcards
When did Mao demand an increase of pace towards full collectivisation and who was concerned about it?
- July 1955
2. Liu Shaoqi and Zhou Enlai
What phrase did Mao say that portrayed his belief in 1957 that the East was succeeding?
“The east wind is prevailing over the west wind”
What were two of Mao’s aims in regards to China’s agriculture and industry in 1949?
- He no longer wanted China to be thought of as the “Sick Man of Asia”
- Wanted to transform China into a ‘superpower’ to rival the USA & USSR
The “Land to The Tiller” movement was started by which law in what month and year?
- The Agrarian Reform Law
2. June 1950
What was the aim of the Agrarian Reform Law?
To abolish exploitation by landlords of peasant renters
What where the names of the organisations set up in villages to determine class membership?
Poor Peasant Associations (PPA)
By 1952, what proportion of land was redistributed to what proportion of the population?
43% of land to 65% of population
What was the reform of 1950 that prevented exploitation by the ‘landlord class’
The Agrarian reform
What were the four categories that work teams labelled peasants as?
Landlords. rich peasants, middle peasants and poor peasants
What percent of land had been redistributed by 1951?
40%
By the end of 1951, what was the estimated number of landlords deaths?
3 million
By the summer of 1952, what percentage of land had been introduced to 60 % of the population?
43%
At the cost of 1-2 million executed landlords from 1950-52, what rate did agricultural production increase per annum?
15%
What was the difference between rich peasants and Landlords that caused them not to be executed?
The rich peasants owned land but did not rent it out to others. they were the most productive peasants.
What is collectivisation?
Organise an industry on a basis of state ownership
