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Industrialization of China did occur on a significant scale only from the 1950s. Beginning in 1953 Mao introduced a 'Five Year Plan' reminiscent of Soviet industrialization efforts. This five-year plan would signify the People's Republic of China first large scale campaign to industrialize.
China's state-led industrialization in the early 1950s was heavily influenced by the Soviet experience. [1]: 154 During China's First Five-Year Period (1953–1957), industrial development was the primary goal.
When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) came to power in 1949, its leaders' fundamental long-range goals were to transform China into a modern, powerful, socialist nation. In economic terms these objectives meant industrialization, improvement of living standards, narrowing of income differences, and production of modern military equipment.
The American Garden at the Thirteen Factories in Canton, 1844–45. According to John Pomfret: To America's founders, China was a source of inspiration. They saw it as a harmonious society with officials chosen on merit, where the arts and philosophy flourished, and the peasantry labored happily on the land.
Most American goods imported by China were either high-technology industrial products, such as aircraft, or agricultural products, primarily grain and cotton. [citation needed] Western Europe has been important in Chinese foreign trade since the mid-1960s.
The Asia First strategy was pushed for in the early 1950s by the powerful China Lobby of the Republican Party in the United States. [1]The Asia First strategy called for the future concentration of American resources in the Far East, in a similar way to the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine in Europe, to fight against the encroaching spread of Soviet communism.
In the late 1950s, China's socio-political landscape experienced significant rural reforms and the aftermath of previous policies aimed at collectivization rather than individualism. [17] Before the Great Leap Forward, the Chinese government initiated land reforms that redistributed land from landlords to peasants, but these reforms still ...
United Nations forces entered the war on side of the South, and American General Douglas MacArthur, having forced a Communist retreat, proposed to end the war by Christmas 1950. The Soviet Union and China saw a UN (and consequently, American) victory as a major political victory to the United States, a prospect seen as dangerous in the ...