In the year 1949 the Chinese Empire ruled over most of the east of Asia and the empire was considered to be the most powerful human society in the world. Mao Zedong announced the founding of the People’s Republic of China in that same year. In 1950 China was completely in shambles due to the years of war against Japan that had destroyed all its infrastructure, farms and factories which left many people without jobs and food. While the Chinese Communist Party was in its first six years of power it made a lot of changes and made the most comprehensive land reform in all of history. Mao Zedong the leader of the Chinese Communist Party had a very large goal for China and I believe that even if he may not have reached his main initial goal, which
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The Chinese Communist Party forced farmers to join collective farms and each farmer got paid according to how much work he did. These joint collective farms consisted of about five thousand households and were called ‘People’s Communes’ where they were expected to smelt steel in the backyards or any sort of metal scrap that they could find as well as begin large-scale farming. Three years into the Great Leap Forward things between the commune leaders and the party officials were not looking good because they were being rushed which resulted in the steel produced being weak and many buildings collapsing killing thousands of people and the farmers alongside their families were left starving as their main focus was the backyard production of steel. Mao admitted that the Great Leap Forward was a failure by saying, “The Chaos caused was on a grand scale, and I take responsibility. Comrades, if you must all analyse your own responsibility. If you have to fart, fart. You will feel much better for it.”
In 1979 China invaded the north of Vietnam by the orders of Mao after taking control of islands with off-shore oil resources, but China had to back down after losing about forty thousand soldiers during the two-week
The Chinese Communist Party forced farmers to join collective farms and each farmer got paid according to how much work he did. These joint collective farms consisted of about five thousand households and were called ‘People’s Communes’ where they were expected to smelt steel in the backyards or any sort of metal scrap that they could find as well as begin large-scale farming. Three years into the Great Leap Forward things between the commune leaders and the party officials were not looking good because they were being rushed which resulted in the steel produced being weak and many buildings collapsing killing thousands of people and the farmers alongside their families were left starving as their main focus was the backyard production of steel. Mao admitted that the Great Leap Forward was a failure by saying, “The Chaos caused was on a grand scale, and I take responsibility. Comrades, if you must all analyse your own responsibility. If you have to fart, fart. You will feel much better for it.”
In 1979 China invaded the north of Vietnam by the orders of Mao after taking control of islands with off-shore oil resources, but China had to back down after losing about forty thousand soldiers during the two-week