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During the Cultural Revolution, the Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Little Red Book) spread slogans taken from the Report widely [23] and Mao's secretary and ideological advisor Chen Boda published a pamphlet analyzing its message and importance. [24]
Flag of Guangdong Peasants' Association during the period of the First United Front. It is believed that Peng Pai (Chinese: 彭湃) organized the first peasants' association in 1921 and then the first general association in 1923, within the short-lived Hailufeng Soviet. [4] He designed the seal and flag of organization. The plough—a ...
During China's First Five-Year Plan period (1953-1957), agriculture, including water conservancy, accounted for only 4% of the government's investment budget. [7]: 98–100 Leading into the Great Leap Forward, China experienced a population boom that strained its food supply, despite rising agricultural yields.
One important motivator of increased international trade was China's inclusion in the World Trade Organization (WTO) on December 11, 2001, leading to reduced or eliminated tariffs on much of China's agricultural exports. Due to the resulting opening of international markets to Chinese agriculture, by 2004 the value of China's agricultural ...
GDP per capita in China (1913–1950) After the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1912, China underwent a period of instability and disrupted economic activity. During the Nanjing decade (1927–1937), China advanced in a number of industrial sectors, in particular those related to the military, in an effort to catch up with the west and prepare for war with Japan.
The Spirit Soldier rebellions of 1920–1926 [a] were a series of major peasant uprisings against state authorities and warlords in the Republic of China's provinces of Hubei and Sichuan during the Warlord Era. Following years of brutal suppression, civil war, and excessive taxation, the rural population of central China was restive, and ...
The failure of agricultural policies, the movement of farmers from agricultural to industrial work, and weather conditions suppressed the food supply. At the same time improvements in medicine, [ 61 ] infant mortality, [ 62 ] and average life expectancy [ 62 ] promoted by the Patriotic Health Campaign led to a greatly increased need for food.
Finally, in most of the Party's thinking, an agricultural cooperative, being much larger than an individual farm plot, would require industrialized agriculture methods. [30] Since China's industrial capacity was so low, and Soviet aid in industrialization would be insufficient to make up the difference, many party members thought that the ...