MAO’S RED CHINA China Under Communist Rule A 5 Year Plan and a 100 Flowers:

Early Relations with the USSR Money, Money, Money - The Need for Assistance Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance The 5-Year Plan

The First 5-Year Plan Building of New production Plants Neglect of Light Industry Necessity to Feed Workers

Output of the 1 st 5-Year Plan Output in Millions of Tons Planned 1957 Actual Coal Pig-Iron Steel Oil Cement Chemical Fertilizer

The Cooperative Farms The Agrarian reform Law only the Start From 1953 On, Party Begins Farming Cooperatives Higher Stage Cooperatives By 1956, % Complete…Peasants Landless Again

The Hundred Flowers 5 Year Plan Caused Enormous Strain Mao Allows Some Freedom of Speech – The Hundred Flowers 6 Weeks of Free Speech 6 Weeks too Long It is only by using discussion, criticism and reasoning that we can really foster correct ideas, overcome wrong ideas and really settle issues. Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land. – Mao Zedong

Mao is hot tempered and not sober-minded; impetuous and not prudent; reckless and not self-assured; incisive and not thoughtful. He loves to be great and meritorious but needs to become more observant of the facts in order to learn the truth. He places confidence in false reports and meets only those who seek to please him.