The Second Five Year Plan 1958-1962

The Second Five Year Plan, 1958-1962

• Absurd targets, a target of 100million tons of steel by 1977
• Anti Rightist campaign, no intellectuals to help with economy 
• Backyard Furnaces, very bad 
• by 1962 production had decreased by 40%
• Wheat production fell to 14% by 1962 
• Grain production fell by 50% from 1958 to 1962
• Rice fell by 30%
• Steel fell 12% in two years
• Coal output fell…