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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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CNA, No. 3 (Sept. 22, 1953), p. 2.
Communist China 1955–1959, p. 45; Li Fu-chun 1955, p. 8.
Cited according to Donnithorne 1967, p. 458.
Cf. Kirby 1957, p. 738f.; Hooton 1956, p. 96.
Cf. Grossmann 1960, p. 110; Donnithorne 1967, p. 459.
Cf. ibid., p. 458; Kirby 1957, p. 803f.; Grossmann 1960, p. 113f.
Li Fu-dshun 1956, p. 41.
Cited according to Schram 1974, p. 178.
Cited according to Tomson/Su 1972, p. 375.
Cf. Eitner 1964, p. 31.
Li Fu-dshun 1956, pp. 81, 86; KMJP, Aug. 12, 1955.
Li Fu-dshun 1956, pp. 31, 80; Grossmann 1960, p. 320.
Li Fu-dshun 1956, pp. 31, 79; Grossmann 1960, p. 320.
NCNA, Sept. 24, 1954 (p. 260); Li Fu-dshun 1956, pp. 25, 31; Chu-yuan Cheng 1967a, p. 522.
Rifkin/Kaplinsky 1973, p. 217f.; Li Fu-dshun 1956, pp. 32, 79f.; Croizier 1965, p. 9f.
Cf. Li Fu-dshun 1956, p. 31.
Cited according to Trivière 1958, p. 97.
Ibid., p. 95; Aird 1972, p. 227ff.; Pi-chao Chen 1973, p. 237f.; Communist China 1955–1959, p. 240; URS, Vol. 4 (July-Sept. 1956), pp. 173–177.
For the following, see Li Fu-chun 1955, pp. 21, 26f., 35, 48, 50.
Chao Kang 1968, p. 557. The coastal provinces are Liaoning, Hopei, Shantung, Kiangsu, Chekiang, Fukien and Kwangtung; the municipalities directly subordinate to the national government are Peking, Tientsin and Shanghai.
Li Fu-dshun 1956, p. 54f.
People’s China, 1954, No. 7 (April 1), Supplement, p. 11; Li Fu-dshun 1956, pp. 29f., 33, 55; Mao Tse-tung 1968, pp. 36f., 46f.; Communist China 1955–1959, p. 115; Chao Kuo-chün 1957, pp. 14f., 71; Kang Chao 1970, p. 100.
Li Fu-dshun 1956, pp. 28f., 57; People’s China, 1953, No. 17 (Sept. 1), p. 7f.
Li Fu-dshun 1956, pp. 30f., 63ff.; Martin 1974, p. 84f.
Li Fu-dshun 1956, p. 21; Lippit 1967, p. 663; Chao Kang 1968, p. 558; Chao Kuo-chün 1959–1960, Vol. 2, pp. 129, 135.
Li Fu-dshun 1956, p. 86; Grossmann 1960, p. 115; Chu-yuan Cheng 1965, p. 194ff.; R. F. Price 1970, pp. 32, 97, 102.
Eitner 1964, pp. 132, 134; NCNA, Oct. 23, 1955 (p. 235); S. H. Chen 1973, p. 705ff.
Cf. Bol’šaja Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, Vol. XXI, p. 260.
Croizier 1965, pp. 15, 17; 1968, p. 167ff.; 1973, p. 10ff.; Wilenski 1976, p. 33; JMJP, Dec. 20, 1955; Rifkin 1973, p. 145.
Ibid., p. 144; Wilenski 1976, p. 39.
State Statistical Bureau 1960, pp. 202, 217; cf. Asher 1976, p. 15.
Orleans 1972a, p. 63f.; Grossmann 1960, p. 311.
Aird 1972, pp. 226, 236; Trivière 1958, p. 97ff.; Communist China 1955–1959, p. 295ff.; Pichao Chen 1973, pp. 248, 255, Fn. 43.
Aird 1972, p. 244ff.; Pi-chao Chen 1973, p. 250; Spengler 1975, pp. 131, 146.
CNA, No. 1 (Aug. 25, 1953), p. 2ff.; Tang/Maloney 1967, p. 246; Tomson/Su 1972, p. 393.
Art. 60, cited according to Tomson/Su 1972, p. 386. For the status and tasks of the local people’s councils, cf. Arts. 62–66.
Cited according to Gittings 1967, p. 274.
People’s China, 1955, No. 8 (April 16), Supplement, p. 4f.; Domes 1972, pp. 59, 231, Fn. 34; Gittings 1967, p. 274.
Cf. NCNA, June 19, 1954; CNA, No. 43 (July 9, 1954), p. 3; FEER, Vol. XVII (July-Dec. 1954), p. 101.
Cf. Art. 53, Constitution, in: Tomson/Su 1972, p. 384f.
Schurmann 1968, p. 189.
Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Vol. I, pp. 192, 200.
Tomson/Su 1972, p. 520.
Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Vol. I, p. 116f.
Mao 1976, p. 103. Cf. also MacFarquhar 1974, p. 120.
People’s China, 1954, No. 1 (Jan. 1), p. 12; Tomson 1963, p. 10ff.; Tomson/Su 1972, p. 207ff.; Tang/Maloney 1967, p. 275ff. A Tibetan autonomous region was not set up until Sept. 9, 1965. But the State Council had constituted the appropriate preparatory committee as early as March 1955.
Tomson/Su 1972, p. 376; Schwarz 1962, p. 172; URS, Vol. 5 (Oct.-Dec. 1956), p. 350ff.; Hung-mao Tien 1974, p. 3.
Cf. Dreyer 1972, p. 418ff.; Hinton 1955, p. 369f.
Cf. Hung-mao Tien 1974, p. 11; Orleans 1972a, p. 82.
Communist China 1955–1959, p. 152ff.
Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Vol. I, pp. 37, 74.
Ibid., p. 174.
Mao 1964–1977, V, pp. 432, 433. In Mao’s terminology “letting blossom” meant “that all people would be allowed to express their opinion without hesitation.”
SCMP, No. 1553, June 19, 1957, pp. 3–7; Mao 1976, p. 131f.
Cf. Borissow/Koloskow 1973, p. 67; Ginsburgs 1976, p. 36; Chu-yuan Cheng 1964, pp. 16, 108; Müller/Gross 1959, p. 12f.; Chin Szu-k’ai 1961, p. 11.
Ibid., pp. 12, 37.
Kapelinskij 1959, p. 457; Chin Szu-k’ai 1961, p. 39; Borissow/Koloskow 1973, p. 70; cf. also Ginsburgs 1976, p. 37.
Borissow/Koloskow 1973, p. 92; Chu-yuan Cheng 1964, p. 16.
Chin Szu-k’ai 1961, p. 42; Borissow/Koloskow 1973, p. 93.
The treaty was interpreted in this way by the Chinese side.
Borissow/Koloskow 1973, p. 144; Chu-yuan Cheng 1964, pp. 31, 93.
According to Chu-yuan Cheng 1964, p. 76ff.; Kang Chao 1964, p. 49; Feng-hwa Mah 1959, p. 76ff.
Chu-yuan Cheng 1964, p. 77f. Cf. also MacFarquhar 1960, p. 50.
Feng-hwa Mah 1959, p. 84.
Ibid., p. 81f.; Chu-yuan Cheng 1964, p. 79ff.
Kang Chao 1964, p. 49f.
Cf. Eckstein 1966, p. 176. The importation of oil-based products, necessary at that time, was expanded relatively and absolutely during the entire plan period.
Chang Tsungtung 1965, pp. 56, 156f.; Kosta/Meyer 1976, p. 64f.
Grossmann 1960, p. 120f.; Chang Tsungtung 1965, p. 177; Kosta/Meyer 1976, p. 67; Hooton 1956, 102f.
Chang Tsungtung 1965, p. 160ff.; Simonis 1968, p. 67f.; Kosta/Meyer 1976, p. 65ft.; Kosta/Meyer/Weber 1973, p. 151f.; Donnithorne 1967, p. 459.
Cf. JMJP, Nov. 11, 1954; Kosta/Meyer 1976, p. 52; Donnithorne 1967, p. 460; Lardy 1975, p. 98.
Chao Kang 1968, p. 562.
Chang Tsungtung 1965, p. 179.
Cited according to Schram 1974, p. 71 (altered in the official version of 1977).
Communist China 1955–1959, pp. 235, 190.
Lardy 1975, pp. 95, 100, 115.
Li Fu-dshun 1956, p. 63.
Cf. Cheng Chu-yuan 1963, p. 69.
Chao Kuo-chün 1959–1960, Vol. 1, p. 72; CNA, No. 174 (March 29, 1957), p. 1; Ssü Di-ssin 1956, p. 1107; Cheng Chu-yuan 1963, p. 70.
Cf. Cheng Chu-yuan 1963, p. 72. In mid-March 1962 Chou En-lai announced that interest payments would continue until 1965.
Schurmann 1968, p. 250ff.; Chao Kang 1968, p. 568f.; Kosta/Meyer 1976, p. 59ff.; Chang Tsungtung 1965, p. 137f.; CNA, No. 153 (Oct. 19, 1956), p. 7.
Cf. Prybyla 1970, p. 185; Ch. Hoffmann 1967, pp. 90, 22f.; Chien-jen Chen 1972, p. 42ff.
Li Fu-dshun 1956, p. 50f.
People’s China, 1953, No. 13 (July 1), p. 3, Supplement, p. 2ff.; Cheng Chu-yuan 1963, p. 29f.; Yang Mu-wen 1961, p. 152f.; K. R. Walker 1966, pp. 5, 9ff.; Grossmann 1960, p. 178.
Cf. Chao Kuo-chün 1957, p. 66f.; K. R. Walker 1965, p. 16; Industrialisierung und Kollektivierung im neuen China, p. 35; Mao Tse-tung 1968, p. 59.
Rochlin/Hagemann 1971, p. 48.
Cf. also Cheng Chu-yuan 1963, p. 33f.; Rochlin/Hagemann 1971, p. 48; Industrialisierung und Kollektivierung im neuen China, p. 36f.; Grossmann 1960, p. 179; Schran 1969, p. 30f.
Yung-hwan Jo 1967, p. 13; Mao Tse-tung 1968, p. 14f.; Domes 1972, p. 50; Parris H. Chang 1975, p. 22; Bernstein 1967, passim; Kang Chao 1970, pp. 23, 25, 46; K. R. Walker 1965, pp. 9f., 61 ff.
Li Fu-dshun 1956, p. 69.
Cf. Ssü Di-ssin 1956, p. 1106; Chao Kuo-chün 1959–1960, Vol. 2, p. 16.
CNA, No. 160 (Dec. 7, 1956), p. 4; Grossmann 1960, p. 257.
Cf. Chao Kuo-chün 1959–1960, Vol. 2, p. 20f.
According to CNA, No. 229 (May 23, 1958), p. 5.
Chao Kuo-chün 1959–1960, Vol. 2, pp. 1, 9, 47ff.
Cf. State Statistical Bureau 1960, p. 41; Grossmann 1960, p. 214; Chao Kuo-chün 1959–1960, Vol. 2, p. 126; Chi-ming Hou 1968, p. 386f.; Hsüä/Su/Lin 1964, p. 165ff.
Donnithorne 1967, p. 260; Chao Kuo-chün 1959–1960, Vol. 2, p. 135f.
Cf. Chao Kuo-chün 1959–1960, Vol. 2, pp. 131, 144; Donnithorne 1967, p. 266.
Ecklund 1974, p. 356ff.
Nai-Ruenn Chen 1967, p. 100.
Ecklund 1966, p. 56f.
Donnithorne 1967, p. 377.
Klein 1961, p. 3.
Ecklund 1966, pp. 55f., 59, 63, 66f.; Donnithorne 1967, p. 380; Nai-Ruenn Chen 1967, p. 97f.
Cf. for the following, Chu-yuan Cheng 1974, p. 5f.; Kang Chao 1974, p. 9ff.; esp. in the latter Appendix A on the official definition of investments.
K. C. Yeh 1965, p. 6. Regardless of whether the variant estimates on the Chinese investment quota are considered more or less realistic, it cannot be ignored that the Soviet investment quotas in the first and second 5-year plans (12.2 and 15.3%) were lower. Cf. Kang Chao 1974, p. 80.
Li Fu-dshun 1956, pp. 19, 40; Kang Chao 1974, p. 44; Choh-ming Li 1959, p. 135; K. C. Yeh 1968, p. 522f.; Hollister 1967, p. 151.
Li Fu-dshun 1956, p. 17, Fn. 1.
Ibid., p. 20.
Ibid., pp. 21, 47ff.; K. C. Yeh 1965, p. 16, Fn. 2; Simonis 1968, p. 98; Chi-ming Hou 1968, p. 355; Grossmann 1960, p. 337; Kang Chao 1968, p. 570f.; Chang Tsungtung 1965, p. 73.
Chen/Galenson 1969, p. 75f.
Ibid., p. 77; Williams 1975, p. 231; Carin 1969, pp. 60, 66ff.
Chu-yuan Cheng 1970a, pp. 37, 49; Kirby 1956–1968, Vol. III, p. 206; Grossmann 1960, p. 156ff.
Li Fu-dshun 1956, p. 57; Leslie T. C. Kuo 1972, p. 42.
Ibid., p. 73; JMJP, Feb. 12, 1958.
Kang Chao 1970, pp. 89, 101f.; JMJP, Dec. 28, 1957; Leslie T. C. Kuo 1972, pp. 109f., 144; Larsen 1967, p. 244.
CNA, No. 222 (March 28, 1958), p. 4ff.; Parris H. Chang 1975, p. 24; Leslie T. C. Kuo 1972, pp. 42, 192, 196; Kang Chao 1970, p. 105.
CS, Vol. VI (1968), No. 17 (Oct. 1), p. 1ff.; Kang Chao 1970, p. 91ff.; URS, Vol. 49 (Oct.-Dec. 1967), p. 52; Chang Tsungtung 1961, p. 39ff.
Chao Kuo-chün 1957, pp. 111f., 127; Communist China 1955–1959, p. 120ff.; Parris H. Chang 1975, p. 17ff.; MacFarquhar 1974, p. 91.
Li Fu-dshun 1956, p. 74; Chao Kuo-chün 1957, pp. 193ff., 75; URS, Vol. 1 (Sept. 16, 1955-Jan. 2, 1956), No. 3 (Sept. 23, 1955); Chao Kuo-chün 1959–1960, Vol. 2, p. 24ff.
Ibid., p. 6f.
Kirby 1956–1968, Vol. III, pp. 203, 209; Chao Kuo-chün 1959–1960, Vol. 2, p. 131.
Ibid., p. 132; Donnithorne 1967, p. 260.
Grossmann 1974a, p. 1325.
Cf. the tables ibid., p. 1323, with the table in Grossmann 1974b, p. 1173f., and the explanatory notes ibid., p. 1172; cf. also Chen/Galenson 1969, p. 81.
State Statistical Bureau 1960, p. 142; Grossmann 1960, p. 233; Howse 1965, p. 51.
Cf. State Statistical Bureau 1960, pp. 188, 192; Li Fu-dshun 1956, p. 31; Eitner 1964, p. 24f., considers the official figures obsolete.
According to Eitner 1964, p. 30; Chao Kuo-chun 1960, p. 341.
Chu-yuan Cheng 1967a, p. 523ff.; State Statistical Bureau 1960, pp. 192, 196.
Ibid., p. 200.
Cf. Orleans 1961, p. 64; 1969a, p. 84; Adrian Hsia 1971, p. 45f.; R. F. Price 1970, p. 225.
CNA, No. 227 (May 9, 1958), p. 1; No. 161 (Dec. 14, 1956), p. 1f.
Estimates by Western experts on the size, birth and death rates of the Chinese population differ in details from the official figures. The problems considered here (the natural growth rate curve and annual population growth) are less affected by this. Cf. Aird 1972, pp. 275, 328; Orleans 1975a, p. 77.
Donnithorne 1967, p. 460; Schram 1974, p. 71ff.; Communist China 1955–1959, p. 235.
Ibid., p. 189; CNA, No. 153 (Oct. 19, 1956), p. 7; cf. also Schurmann 1968, p. 285ff.
ECMM, No. 66 (Jan. 21, 1957), p. 7; Communist China 1955–1959, p. 356; CNA, No. 192 (Aug. 9, 1957), p. 7; cf. SCMP, No. 1605 (Sept. 6, 1957), p. 11ff.
Cf. the detailed description of public criticism in MacFarquhar 1960, p. 38ff.
Ashbrook 1978, p. 208. Cf. also Cheng Chu-yuan 1963, p. 109. According to the calculations of Yuan-li Wu 1965a, p. 91, this only rose from 94.6 yüan (1952) to 100.3 yüan (1957).
Kirby 1956–1968, Vol. III, p. 207.
Chuh-yuan Cheng 1970a, p. 45; Kirby 1956–1968, Vol. III, p. 206f.; Grossmann 1960, p. 344; Choh-Ming Li 1959, p. 46f.
Kirby 1956–1968, Vol. III, p. 207.
Nai-Ruenn Chen 1967, p. 318; Choh-Ming Li 1959, p. 66.
Kirby 1956–1968, Vol. III, p. 209; Communist China 1955–1959, p. 184; Eighth Congress of the Communist Party of China, Vol. II, p. 164ff.
State Statistical Bureau 1960, p. 41.
Ibid., p. 144; Grossmann 1960, p. 347; Communist China 1955–1959, pp. 178, 218; Kirby 1956–1968, Vol. III, p. 209.
Chi-ming Hou 1968, p. 342; K. C. Yeh 1965, p. 24; Emerson 1961.
Grossmann 1960, pp. 75, 339; K. R. Walker 1964, p. 167ff.
Chao Kuo-chün 1959–1960, Vol. 1, p. 39; Communist China 1955–1959, p. 183; State Statistical Bureau 1960, pp. 8, 128.
K. C. Yeh 1965, p. 20ff.
See also Rostow et al., 1957, p. 402; K. C. Yeh 1965, pp. 25, 27.
Ibid., p. 30f.
Cited according to Schräm 1974, p. 81f.
Mao 1964–1977, V, p. 420.
Cited according to Martin 1974, p. 27.
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Kraus, W. (1982). Adoption of the Soviet Developmental Model. The Period of the First Chinese Five-Year Plan, 1953–1957. In: Economic Development and Social Change in the People’s Republic of China. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5728-8_3
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