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Although the Chinese industrialization is largely defined by its 20th-century campaigns, especially those motivated by Mao Zedong's political calls to "exceed the UK and catch the USA", China has a long history that contextualizes the proto-industrial efforts, and explains the reasons for delay of industrialization in comparison to Western ...
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However, by 1983 industrial centers in the north, south, and southwest had increased their share of output to more than 40 percent. This increase was the result of a policy begun in the 1950s to gradually expand existing industrial bases to new areas, to build new bases in the north and south, and to establish a new base in the southwest.
1950–1955: New Marriage Law: 新婚姻法: A marriage law mandating that marriages be registered through state institutions, and raising the marriageable age to 20 for males and 18 for females. 1950–1956: Combat Illiteracy Campaign: Focus on raising literacy rates from 15-25% in 1950. [5] [6] [7] 1951–1952: Three-Anti/Five-Anti campaigns ...
Anshan Iron and Steel Structure Metal Processing Plant in 1952. The 2nd Five-Year Plan was the second five-year plan adopted by the People's Republic of China. It was planned to last from 1958 to 1962, and was more modest than the first Five-Year Plan, but was de facto abandoned since the beginning of the Great Leap Forward.
Official Chinese statistics show that after the end of the Leap in 1962, industrial output value had doubled; the gross value of agricultural products increased by 35 percent; steel production in 1962 was between 10.6 million tons or 12 million tons; investment in capital construction rose to 40 percent from 35 percent in the First Five-Year ...
Although urbanization had not been a specific goal of the plan's focus on industrialization, industrialization also prompted extensive urban growth. [2]: 67 Between 1952 and 1957, China's urban population grew 30%. [2]: 21 The creation of new state industrial projects created new factory towns and new industrial districts in older cities.
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.