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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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Map of affected areas in the 1920-1921 famine. Mme. Kuritsuka & Chinese famine children. The Chinese famine of 1920–1921 affected the Chinese provinces of Zhili, Shandong, Hunan, and Shanxi. [1] The famine, caused by drought, [2] was worsened by the lack of central authority in the power vacuum of the Warlord Era. [3]
The Land Reform Movement, also known by the Chinese abbreviation Tǔgǎi (土改), was a mass movement led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Mao Zedong during the late phase of the Chinese Civil War after the Second Sino-Japanese War ended in 1945 and in the early People's Republic of China, [1] which achieved land redistribution to ...
The Rural Reconstruction Movement was started in China in the 1920s by Y.C. James Yen, Liang Shuming and others to revive the Chinese village.They strove for a middle way, independent of the Nationalist government but in competition with the radical revolutionary approach to the village espoused by Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party.