What reforms did Mao Tse Tung make?
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Mao introduced land reforms and he first Five Year Plan, which was to increase Chinese industrial output and put it on the path to becoming a world power. The Great Leap Forward was meant to modernize China to compete with the developed worl. Finally, the Cultural Revolution established his absolute power to control both the party and the nation.
Explanation:
Mao introduced land reforms and he first Five Year Plan, which was to increase Chinese industrial output and put it on the path to becoming a world power. The Great Leap Forward was meant to modernize China to compete with the developed worl. Finally, the Cultural Revolution established his absolute power to control both the party and the nation.
The second Five-Year Plan Reform known as the Great Leap Forward, a plan intended as an alternative model for economic growth to the Soviet model focusing on heavy industry that was advocated by others in the party. Under this economic program, the relatively small agricultural collectives which had been formed to date were rapidly merged into far larger people's communes, and many of the peasants ordered to work on massive infrastructure projects and the small-scale production of iron and steel. Some private food production was banned; livestock and farm implements were brought under collective ownership.
