The Second Five Year Plan 1958-1962

The Second Five year Plan (1958-62)

• Cnstruction in cities helped to modernise
• Tiannamen Square was remodelled to be more modern
• Ridiculous targets, minister of metallurgy claimed steel would reach 20 million tonnes in 1962
• Backyard furnaces led to awful steel quality, very brittle 
• Grain fell by 38 million tonnes during this period 
• Steel fell by 2 million tonnes 
• Coal fell by 50 million tonnes 
• Total industrial output fell by 27% 
• Amount of land used for…