The Great Leap Forward - The Second Five-Year Plan
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- The Great Leap Forward 1958-1962
- The Second Five-Year Plan
- Causes:
- Marxist ideology = development of an industrialised proletariat
- Mao believed that human willpower was the key factor the change
- By 1958, Mao had been in power for nearly 10 years - had secured his power over the people
- The first five-year plan was too reliant on USSR - Mao wanted to show his independance
- Mao's visit to Moscow in 1957 inspired him that Communism was more inspired than Capitalism - Sputnik
- Sino-Soviet relations in 1958 were so poor that Mao wanted China to be not only economically independent but the leader of world communism
- Aims:
- To modernise and industrialise China
- Overtake the West (e.g. UK in steel output in 15 years)
- Increase agriculture output = increase in food to the cities & exports to buy machinery
- Mass mobilisation of Chinese population
- Carried out by the CCP (Liu Shaoqui & Deng Xiaoping)
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