First Five Year Plan Flashcards
What did the first five year plan aim to achieve (6)
Higher rate of growth
Investment in advanced technology
Construct modern and industrial plants
Self sufficiency - become an autarkic state
Increase grain
Stimulate transformation towards a socialist society
Statistic before five year plan that may have prompted it? (4)
Industrial output in 1949 was 10-20% of pre war peak
Under 50% coal
75% electricity
70-90% consumer goods
How successful was the five year plan with coal ?
1952 = 68.5 mmt
Target of 1957 = 113 mmt
Achieved = 130 mmt
Percentage achieved = 115%
How successful was the five year plan and crude oil?
1952 = 436 tmt
1957 target = 2012 tmt
1957 achieved = 1458 tmt
Achieved 72.5% of plan
How successful was the five year plan and electric power ?
1952= 7.26 billion Kmh
1957 target = 15.9 billion Kmh
1957 achieved = 19.34 billion Kmh
Percentage of achievement = 121.6%
What evidence is there for success of high growth? In the five year plan?
Annual growth rate = 16%
Industrial output grew 15.5%
Heavy industrial output nearly tripled
What happened with the construction of modern industrial plants and the first five year plan?
New steel centre at Anshan attracted 35,000 new workers
By 1957, it produced 2/3 of steel in China
What happened with advancing tech and the first five year plan ?
Railway freight volumes more than doubled enabling equipment and machines to be moved around the country more efficiently and quickly
What happened with advances towards socialism in the five year plan?
1953- state began to convert private firms into joint state-private ownership
1956- private sector industry had been abolished
What could workers in a danwei get permits to?
Marriage and travel
What did urbanisation mean for living conditions?
Housing
Healthcare
Education
Entertainment
Were provided
How did the five year plan fail in terms of the Soviet Union?
The plan was dependent on high interest loans from the Soviet Union
How did the five year plan fail in terms of the peasants
In order to meet repayments to the Soviet Union and feed a growing industrial workforce, farmers had to sell their grain to the state at low prices.
Requisition of grain meant that the peasantry only barely surviving at a subsistence level.
How did the five year plan fail in terms of agriculture ?
Agricultural output only grew 2.1% a year
Although it did increase, this was not at the level the regime wanted.
It declined from the rate of 14.1% achieved in 1959-1952
How did the five year plan fail in terms of consumer goods?
There were little to buy in shops
