Land ownership between 1950 and 1957
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- Land ownership between 1949 and 1957
- Redistribution of land
- Land reform meant redistribution, not lower rents or low interest loans.
- The PLA played a big role crushing people who opposed the new Agrarian Law. They also helped Party officials organise work teams
- PLA organised the meetings that labelled people.
- Landlordism
- The 1950 Agrarian Reform Law laid the legal framework for the eradication of the exploitation of the 'landlord class'
- By the end of 1951, 10 million landlords had lost their land and 40% of the land had changed hands. 700,000 had died also
- Agricultural co-operation
- The party didn't want the peasants to become the new class of landowners so moves towards collectivisation quickly began.
- From 1951 families were encouraged to join Mutual Aid Teams (MATs), where they could pool their resources.
- In 1952, successful MATs were encouraged to form APCs.
- Voluntary to enforced collectivisation
- Only 14% of households were in the APC system by 1955. Mao was frustrated by this.
- In 1954, peasants started selling food as they would under capitalism.
- In Jan 1955, the APC development cam to a halt for 18 months.
- In July 1955, Mao decide to go for full-out collectivisation. By Jan 1956, 75 million households were in the APC system from 17 million in July 1955.
- The reason was because Mao feared that the supplies to the cities would continue to be unreliable as long as peasants owned the land.
- Most new APCs were classified as HPCs. In HPCs profits were shared out based on the labour you contributed.
- In ideological terms, collectivisation was a success. The state owned the land on which 90% of the population worked.
- However the peasants now had an unequal relationship with the CCP as they felt they were servants of the party.
- Food production increased by only 3.8% per annum. This was insufficient to feed the growing industrial workforce. The situation wasn't helped by a lack of state investment
- Redistribution of land
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