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MAOS RED CHINA

• China Under Communist Rule
• A 5 Year Plan and a 100 Flowers 1953-57

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Early Relations with the USSR

• Money, Money, Money - The Need for Assistance
• Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual
  Assistance
• The 5-Year Plan

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The First 5-Year Plan

• Building of New production Plants
• Neglect of Light Industry
• Necessity to Feed Workers

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Output of the 1st 5-Year Plan
Output in Millions of Tons Output in Millions of Tons Output in Millions of Tons Output in Millions of Tons
1952 1957 Planned 1957 Actual
Coal 63.5 113.0 124.0
Pig-Iron 1.9 4.7 5.8
Steel 1.3 4.1 5.2
Oil 0.4 2.0 1.4
Cement 2.6 6.0 4.6
Chemical Fertilizer 0.2 0.6 0.7
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The Cooperative Farms

• The Agrarian reform Law only the Start
• From 1953 On, Party Begins Farming Cooperatives
• Higher Stage Cooperatives
• By 1956, 95-100 CompletePeasants Landless Again

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The Hundred Flowers

• 5 Year Plan Caused Enormous Strain
• Mao Allows Some Freedom of Speech The Hundred
  Flowers
• 6 Weeks of Free Speech 6 Weeks too Long

• It is only by using discussion, criticism and
  reasoning that we can really foster correct
  ideas, overcome wrong ideas and really settle
  issues. Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a
  hundred schools of thought contend is the policy
  for promoting progress in the arts and the
  sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in
  our land. Mao Zedong

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• Mao is hot tempered and not sober-minded
  impetuous and not prudent reckless and not
  self-assured incisive and not thoughtful. He
  loves to be great and meritorious but needs to
  become more observant of the facts in order to
  learn the truth. He places confidence in false
  reports and meets only those who seek to please
  him.