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 * **__//First Five-Year Plan// (1953~8)__**
 * Plan was to eliminate Chinese dependence on agricultural industry
 * Soviet Union helped build industrial plants
 * Second Five-Year Plan, also known as the **__//Great Leap Forward// (1958)__**
 * Rapid collectivization
 * Aimed to increase literarcy
 * Land taken from landlords, given to poorer peasants
 * Large-scale industrialization projects established
 * Steel quotas were officially established
 * However, many millions starved to death, because,
 * Droughts and floods affected output
 * Not enough farmers worked in the agricultural industry --many were forced to, if not encouraged to, work for industrialization
 * There was not enough agricultural production
 * //**__Hundred Flower Campaign__**//
 * Intended to hear-out opinions of the public
 * Liberal, intellectuals began criticizing the Communist party and its leadership
 * After a few months, Mao reversed his policies, persecuting those who criticized (approx. 500,000 people)
 * Historiography--
 * Author Jung Chang: the campaign was merely a way to root out critics
 * Doctor LiZhisui: Mao initially established the campaign to weaken those opposing him within the party, but realized that the criticism also impacted his own leadership, so persecuted them.

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