First Five-Year Plan

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  • TITLE: Anshan (China)
    ...population had fallen, and steel production had virtually ceased. After 1949 the rehabilitation of heavy industry at Anshan and elsewhere became a major goal of the communist government. Under the First Five-Year Plan (1953–57) Anshan was built up again into the major iron and steel complex in China and was restocked with the latest equipment, much of it from the Soviet Union. By 1957 it...

industrial development

  • TITLE: China
    SECTION: Economic policies
    The First Five-Year Plan (1953–57) emphasized rapid industrial development, partly at the expense of other sectors of the economy. The bulk of the state’s investment was channeled into the industrial sector, while agriculture, which occupied more than four-fifths of the economically active population, was forced to rely on its own meagre capital resources for a substantial part of its...
  • TITLE: China
    SECTION: The transition to socialism, 1953–57
    The period 1953–57, corresponding to the First Five-Year Plan, was the beginning of China’s rapid industrialization, and it is still regarded as having been enormously successful. A strong central governmental apparatus proved able to channel scarce resources into the rapid development of heavy industry. Despite some serious policy issues and problems, the communist leadership seemed to...