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Mao Zedong formally declares the People's Republic of China
shanghai, Sept. 30--Mao Tze-tung, chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist party, was elected chairman of the new Central Government of the People's Republic of China today as the Chinese People's Political Consultative Council completed its job of launching the new government of Communist China. -
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Mao Zedong formally declares the People's Republic of China.
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What was the great leap forward
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What was the great leap forward
Mao had toured China and concluded that the Chinese people were capable of anything and the two primary tasks that he felt they should target was industry and agriculture. Mao announced a second Five Year Plan to last from 1958 to 1963. This plan was called the Great Leap Forward. -
Mao uses propaganda
1962, Mao advocated the Socialist Education Movement (SEM), in an attempt to 'inoculate' the peasantry against the temptations of feudalism and the sprouts of capitalism that he saw re-emerging in the countryside. Large doses of didactic politicized art, whether figurative or literary, were produced as serum for this inoculation process. The Party organization saw the initiatives proposed by Mao and his even more radical followers as interfering with its successful program of economic rehabilit -
Mao introduces the Cultural Revolution.
In 1966, China's Communist leader Mao Zedong launched what became known as the Cultural Revolution in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government. -
President Nixon visits China.
peking, Monday, Feb. 21--President Nixon arrived in Peking this morning to mark the end of a generation of hostility between the United States and China and to begin a new but still undefined relationship between the most powerful and the most populous of nations. -
Special Economic Zones are created.
ong Kong, Monday, Oct. 25--Hua Kuo-feng was acclaimed chairman of the Chinese Communist Party yesterday at a vast rally of one million people in Peking that came after six weeks of bitter political conflict following the death of Mao Tse-tung -
Deng Xiaoping becomes China's leader
Deng Xiaoping was born on August 22, 1904 in Guang’an, rising through political ranks to become the communist leader who ruled China from the late 1970s until 1997. He abandoned many communist doctrines and incorporated elements of the free-enterprise system into the economy. Deng engineered reforms in virtually all aspects of China's political, economic and social life, restoring the country to domestic stability and economic growth after the excesses of the Cultural Revolution though cementing -
Government crackdown on student protests in Tiananmen Square.
Tens of thousands of Chinese troops retook the center of the capital early this morning from pro-democracy protesters, killing scores of students and workers and wounding hundreds more as they fired submachine guns at crowds of people who tried to resist.Tens of thousands of Chinese troops retook the center of the capital early this morning from pro-democracy protesters, killing scores of students and workers and wounding hundreds more as they fired submachine guns at crowds of people who trie -
China becomes economic powerhouse
China has the water resources that most of Asia doesn't have. It is going through a phase with a peak in a working population. It has the mineral resources and land availability that competitors such as India and Japan don't have. It has the food that Africa doesn't have. China has the history+population levels that Americas don't have. In short, China has all the elements for becoming an economic powerhouse. What keeps China down is its own domestic politics.
