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Question 1

100 Chinese yuan could buy

Answer 1

1940 - pig
1945 - fish
1946 - egg

Question 2

factory output in 1949

Answer 2

44% below than in 1937

Question 3

industry formed what % of the national economy in 1949

Answer 3

“China’s modern industry forms a very small proportion of the economy… around 10%”-Mao

Question 4

what % of pop. worked in industry in 1949

Answer 4

5%

Question 5

what % of pop did peasants make up

Answer 5

80%

Question 6

no. of members of the CCP at end of 1950

Answer 6

5.8 million

Question 7

no. of members of CCP in 1949

Answer 7

4.5 million

Question 8

pop. of china

Answer 8

half a billion

Question 9

army size 1950-53

Answer 9

5 million to 3.5 million

Question 10

how many counter revolutionary deaths in first half of 1951

Answer 10

800,000

Question 11

where were 99% of businessmen found guilty of at least one of the five Antis

Answer 11

Shanghai

Question 12

how many Tibetans attempted to resist the invasion

Answer 12

60,000

Question 13

how much did Mao want to raise the pop. of Tibet by

Answer 13

from 3 million to 10 million, using immigration of Han Chinese

Question 14

what proportion of the pop. / how many Uighurs were there in Xinjiang

Answer 14

3/4 of the 4 mil population

Question 15

how many executed in Guangdong “supress the counter revolutionaries” campaign

Answer 15

28,000

Question 16

production of lagoi by mid 50s

Answer 16

700 million yuan in industrial produce and 350,000 tons of grain to the economy.

Question 17

what was the Quota for cadres in the anti rightist campaign

Answer 17

5% of the people in a Danwei to be dammed as rightists

Question 18

how many were purged or sent to labour camps in the anti rightist campaign

Answer 18

around 700,000

Question 19

agrarian land reform 1952

Answer 19

Largely completed
- 88% households taken part
- 43% of land redistributed to 60% of the population

Question 20

agricultural production from 1950-52

Answer 20

increased at 15% per annum

Question 21

how many landlords executed during attacks on landlords during agrarian land reform

Answer 21

1-2 million

Question 22

by 1952 what % of peasant households were in an MAT

Answer 22

40%

Question 23

Size of APCs

Answer 23

5 MATs

Question 24

how many peasants were in APCs by june 1955

Answer 24

17 million peasant households out of 110 million. As APC were less popular because peasants didn’t want to share their new land.

Question 25

1953 - 54 agricultural production rise and why

Answer 25

2% - richer peasants slaughtered animals rather than give them to APC

Question 26

membership of peasant farmers in APCs - December 1956

Answer 26

96%

Question 27

Membership of APCs Jan 1956 and % of higher level APCs

Answer 27

80% membership, 30% were higher level APCs with 200-300 households

Question 28

grain production rise in 1957

Answer 28

1%

Question 29

end of 1958 - how many co-operatives had been reorganised into how many communes

Answer 29

740,000 co-operatives into 26,000 communes

Question 30

what % of peasants lived in communes

Answer 30

99%

Question 31

1958-59 what % of women worked in agriculture

Answer 31

90%

Question 32

how many new enterprises constructed under the Sino-soviet treaty

Answer 32

156

Question 33

how many industrial experts given to China under the Sino-soviet treaty

Answer 33

11,000

Question 34

how many Chinese to study in Russia under the Sino-soviet treaty

Answer 34

28,000

Question 35

how big was the loan that the USSR gave the Chinese under the Sino-soviet treaty

Answer 35

$300 million over 5 years (high interest rates)

Question 36

in 1953 how much grain did the state aim to procure

Answer 36

22 million tons

Question 37

fist 5 year plan stats (1952-57) (Coal, steel, Electric power)

Answer 37

coal - 1952 69 mmt, 1957 130 mmt steel - 1952 1.4 mmt , 1957 5.4 mmt electricity - 1952 7 billion kwh, 1956 20 billion kwh

Question 38

annual growth rate under first 5 year plan

Answer 38

16%

Question 39

increase in heavy industry under first 5 year plan

Answer 39

3x

Question 40

increase in industrial working class under first 5 year plan

Answer 40

6 million to 10 million

Question 41

success of the first 5 year plan in abolishing private industry

Answer 41

1953 - start of converting private farms into joint state-private ownership 1956 - private sector had been abolished, small shops converted into co-operatives.

Question 42

increase in value of agricultural output under the first 5 year plan

Answer 42

2.1% per year

Question 43

increase in value of agricultural output 1949-51

Answer 43

14.1% per year

Question 44

examples of govt. ministers telling Mao their ridiculously high expectations under the 2nd 5 year plan, because Mao set ridiculously high targets

Answer 44

Jan 1958 - Minister of Metallurgy declared that it would double steel production to 20 million tons by 1962 and 100 million by 1977 Chemical minister claimed it would construct thousands of chemical fertiliser factories (worrying he would look slow)

Question 45

industrial production in 1962 compared to 58-59 levels

Answer 45

industrial production was 40% of the 58-59 level

Question 46

grain output in 1958 - 61

Answer 46

58 - 200 mmt 61 - 147 mmt

Question 47

coal in 1959 - 62

Answer 47

59 - 369 mmt 62 - 220 mmt

Question 48

steel in 1959 - 62

Answer 48

59 - 14 mmt 62 - 7 mmt

Question 49

industrial output (yuan) 1959-62

Answer 49

59 - 163 billion yuan 62 - 94 billion yuan

Question 50

1958 - 61 change in amount of land used for crop production

Answer 50

reduced by 9%

Question 51

rural death rate before the Great famine compared to 1960

Answer 51

before - 11 people per 1000 1960 - 29 per 1000 Henan - 8 million died Sichuan - 9 million died

Question 52

deaths because of the Great famine

Answer 52

30-50 million

Question 53

amount of cultivated land affected by drought or flooding during GLF

Answer 53

60% - 2 million died through downing or from starvation after their crops were destroyed

Question 54

how were party bosses responsible for the Great famine

Answer 54

Henan - local party boss built 7 mansions while people starved

Question 55

agricultural production in 1965

Answer 55

recovered to 1957 level - before GLF

Question 56

availability of tools, boats and carts by end on 1962

Answer 56

restored to levels before the communes

Question 57

light and heavy industry growth under Liu and Deng (62-65)

Answer 57

Light - 27% per annum Heavy - 17% per annum

Question 58

consumer good production 1965

Answer 58

double 1957 levels