Notes
- Mao’s new economic plan after five year plans criticized
- China organized into 28,000 communes
- Main factors:
- Great industrial and scientific activity
- Muscle power used to build, dams, and irrigation
- Small communal factories
- Famine a huge problem (30,000,000 deaths)
Summary
After being criticized for his 5 year plans, Mao decides to switch it up with a new economic plan. He used his numbers to build great structures such as dams and create irrigation.