CR AOS2 Statistics

Question 1

How many PLA forces mobilised to push back SK forces on 25 OCT 1950?

Answer 1

200,000

Question 2

How many Chinese vs UN soldiers died during the Korean war?

Answer 2

400,000 Chinese dead vs 157,000 UN dead

Question 3

What % of soldiers did China provide for the Korean War?

Answer 3

95%

Question 4

How many landlords were executed during Fanshen and land reform?

Answer 4

1-5 million

Question 5

How much of China’s farmland was redistributed during land reform?

Answer 5

47% from landlords to poor peasantry

Question 6

When was the agrarian reform law (fanshen)?

Answer 6

1950

Question 7

Why was Sanfan (Three antis) introduced?

Answer 7

3 million ex-GMD officials recruited to serve in CCP administration

Question 8

How many CCP members were investigated, and how many were found guilty during 1951 Sanfan?

Answer 8

4 million investigated, 1.2 million guilty

Question 9

How many businesses were investigated during Wufan?

Answer 9

450,000

Question 10

What % of businesses were nationalised by the end of Wufan (five antis)

Answer 10

63%

Question 11

The five-year plan was needed because what % of Chinese industry was destroyed during the war with Japan and the Civil War?

Answer 11

50%

Question 12

When was nationalisation of industry and collectivisation of farms introduced under the five-year plan?

Answer 12

1956

Question 13

What was the effect of the five-year plan (statistics only)?

Answer 13

• Industrial growth rate 10% per year
• Urban workforce doubled; real wages increase by 1/3
• 1975 harvest only increased by 1%; collectivisation ineffective and bred discontent
• 200,000 people attend rally Tiananmen square to celebrate socialism over capitalism - public support

Question 14

How many rightists/intellectuals were sent to ‘re-education labour camps’ during the Hundred Flowers Campaign?

Answer 14

400,000

Question 15

What % of GMD and democratic parties were found guilty of being rightists during the Hundred Flowers Campaign?

Answer 15

40%

Question 16

How many people worked at how many furnaces during the backyard steel campaign?

Answer 16

100 million people worked at 750,000 furnaces

Question 17

How many people were purged at the Lushan Plenum for not supporting the GLF?

Answer 17

350,000 CCP purged

Question 18

What was the falsification of figures in 1959 during the GLF?

Answer 18

170 million tonnes was reported as 500 million

Question 19

By what % did agricultural production fall from 1958-1961? (Hint - GLF)

Answer 19

25%

Question 20

How many Chinese died during the Three Bad Years Famine?

Answer 20

30 million