1. The Great Leap Forward

2. The Socialist Transformation of the Economy
Rural
1953 Mutual aid teams - suit strong and able
1954 Cooperatives – pay partly for labour
1956 Collectivisation – pay wholly for labour
Urban
Businesses first become partly state owned
Then merged into huge collectives
Household registration established

3. I remember how at the beginning when we organised the Old and Young Mutual Aid group, among the ten households who took part five were children and four were old hired workers. It was really difficult at that time! The young couldn't draw a bow and the old couldn't ride a horse, but we all settled down to it. Not only did we cultivate the land well, but we also trained up many people

4. When the production conditions took a turn for the better, the next step was for Chen Yonggui to put forward his plan for advance on three fronts: 1. Reorganise the land to prepare to plant wheat. 2. Cut grass and clear land as a basis for next years production. 3. Bake bricks and prepare lime to repair the cave dwellings.

6. Let a hundred flowers bloom!
Effort to improve relations with intellectuals
Needed for Soviet-style planned economy
Call for criticisms
→ torrent of grievances
→ Anti-Rightist campaign
Those who made criticisms imprisoned and many more
Results
Worse relations with intellectuals
Increased fear of the state

7. The Great Leap Forward
Mass mobilisation as an alternative to the Soviet-style planned economy
Huge projects: irrigation, steel production, scientific agriculture
Results
Urbanisation
Neglect of agriculture
→ FAMINE

9. Vigorously develop the movement to increase production and economize with grain and steel at the centre

10. A strong force against disaster Ever more quickly increase production and raise the standard of living

11. Famine Causes Results Grain production declined Waste of food
Inflated statistics
Results
Perhaps 10 million people died mostly in the countryside
It was worst in the most radical provinces

12. Long term results Loss of legitimacy for the Communist Party
Mao Zedong lost prestige among the top leaders
The bureaucracy became more frightened and more politicised
But also set the stage for the 1980s reforms of agriculture