Yet despite these dramatic increases in production the

Last updated: 10/19/2023

Yet despite these dramatic increases in production the concentration on heavy industry and rapid industrialisation caused shortages of goods and housing in the towns Nonetheless most contemporary analysts Communist and non Communist judged the results of the Five Year Plan as broadly successful KEY CONCEPTS ACTIVITY Significance Carry out some additional research on the CCP s industrial reforms and then write a couple of paragraphs to show how important financial and technical assistance from the Soviet Union was in the early successes of China s First Five Year Plan Impact on industrial workers However for China s industrial workers the rapid industrialisation meant increasing subjection to strict codes of labour discipline It also led to greater wage and status differentials and thus inequalities based on skills and outputs Before 1952 trade unions had been relatively independent but by 1955 had largely become state instruments geared to increasing workers productivity In addition the rapid industrialisation required many more administrators managers and technical experts As has been seen this led to concerns about an emerging non revolutionary bureaucracy There was also growing inequality between urban and rural areas This latter problem was something Mao decided to address from 1956 onwards and eventually led to the Great Leap Forward see Chapter 3 The First Five Year Plan and agriculture Initially CCP leaders believed that the move to full collectivisation i e full social ownership and the abolition of private land ownership would not be for several years Mao himself at first believed that for this to happen industrial development via three Five Year Plans would be needed Those Party members who at the time urged much more rapid progress were criticised for advocating utopian agrarian socialism i e cocialist just by transforming