China’s history is quite vast and all of its rulers have influenced the way China runs its country. Confucius shaped China’s society through manners and respect among its people and through acceptance of your place in society. Mao Zedong tried to create a higher functioning society and economy during the Great Leap Forward and Deng Xiaoping used his Four Modernizations to shape China’s economy to run smoother and more effective. Without these people, China would not be where it is today.
As China started to shape itself, major belief systems started to be formed by different people. Confucianism was on of these first systems to appear in china. Confucianism is based on the idea that harmony, or social order and peace, can only exist when you …show more content…
“I don’t care if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice”(Deng). He did not care if it was capitalism or communism that made China run, as long as it ran smoothly and gave him more power over the people. Deng had a program called the Four Modernizations which were agriculture, industry, science with technology, and defence. Through this program he ended communes and allowed private enterprise, which meant that any extra produce that was grown, the farmer got to keep and do with it as he pleases. People could also set up businesses and there was more freedom in factories which made them run smoother. Deng welcomed foreign technology and capital which caused coastal cities an economic boom. As time went on, students and workers wanted to create a democracy movement, they met in Tiananmen Square and hung banners and when they would not leave, the army took action. Tanks and troops came in and opened fire, thousands were killed while others were imprisoned and tortured in what is known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre. The last time the world had seen something as horrific as this was the massacre at Amritsar in India on April 13th, 1919. This showed the people that the communist government was determined to keep control. China was and still is struggling with a massive population growth. China’s population was at around 1.3 billion, which is the largest in the world so Deng came up with and enforced the one child policy. This stated that urban families can have one child and rural families can have 2 children. This caused a slow in the population growth but China is still overpopulated and the numbers keep rising. With the population growing crime rates increased along with it. In 2009 the first human resources plan was put into action, allowing the right to question government policies, giving the people slightly more
As China started to shape itself, major belief systems started to be formed by different people. Confucianism was on of these first systems to appear in china. Confucianism is based on the idea that harmony, or social order and peace, can only exist when you …show more content…
“I don’t care if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice”(Deng). He did not care if it was capitalism or communism that made China run, as long as it ran smoothly and gave him more power over the people. Deng had a program called the Four Modernizations which were agriculture, industry, science with technology, and defence. Through this program he ended communes and allowed private enterprise, which meant that any extra produce that was grown, the farmer got to keep and do with it as he pleases. People could also set up businesses and there was more freedom in factories which made them run smoother. Deng welcomed foreign technology and capital which caused coastal cities an economic boom. As time went on, students and workers wanted to create a democracy movement, they met in Tiananmen Square and hung banners and when they would not leave, the army took action. Tanks and troops came in and opened fire, thousands were killed while others were imprisoned and tortured in what is known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre. The last time the world had seen something as horrific as this was the massacre at Amritsar in India on April 13th, 1919. This showed the people that the communist government was determined to keep control. China was and still is struggling with a massive population growth. China’s population was at around 1.3 billion, which is the largest in the world so Deng came up with and enforced the one child policy. This stated that urban families can have one child and rural families can have 2 children. This caused a slow in the population growth but China is still overpopulated and the numbers keep rising. With the population growing crime rates increased along with it. In 2009 the first human resources plan was put into action, allowing the right to question government policies, giving the people slightly more