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Adoption of the Soviet Developmental Model. The Period of the First Chinese Five-Year Plan, 1953–1957

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On December 24, 1952, the Chinese prime minister, Chou En-lai, announced the commencement of the first 5-year plan.1 The plan itself, which had been worked on since 1951, was only finished in February 1955 “after being repeatedly supplemented and revised” and presented to and passed by the second plenum of the First National People’s Congress in July 1955.2 While it was admitted that “a relatively complete series of individual plans had been worked out and passed on to subordinate levels for realization”3 as early as 1953, the first 5-year plan was, until its promulgation in 1955, more a generalized program than a detailed plan.

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