2nd five year plan 1958-62

2nd five year plan

Impact:

• Annoced in May 1958, at the 18th CCP congress.
• New targets set for industrial growth and agriculturewas to be modernised.
• Called this the great leap forward, Mao was impatient at the slow pace of the progress.
• Mao wanted China tyo become a modern industrial power.

Why:

Economic:

• industrialisation depended on agriculture becoming more productive and efficient in order to feed the industrial workforce.
• Debates with radicals and conservations about the best way forward.

Personal Levels:

• Mao confidence was high.
• Cadres were anxious to prove themselves.

Political:

• Mao needed to demonstrate his credentials as the next lead of the communist world.

Logical:

•  Plan reliance on mass peasent mobilisation fitted with Mao's thinking.
• The greatest degree of decentralisation…