3rd 5 year plan

• When was the 3rd 5 year plan launched?


  1962-1965
• Who was in charge during the 3rd 5 year plan

  Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xioaping
• What was the 3rd 5 year plan a retreat from?

  The Great Leap Forward
• What were some of the things they did as part of the 3rd 5 year plan?

  Broke down the communes

  imported food to help with the famine

  Shifted back to centralised control

  1000s of ineffective programs were shut down

  More realistic targets were set

  Relaxation of persecution of scientists and intellectuals

  Financial incentive for workers
• What did Deng say in his speech and what did it mean


  It doesn’t matter if the cat is black or white as long as it catches the mice

  It doesn’t matter if your capatatalist or communist as long as you work towards the same goal.
• What did Lui say in his speech in 1962?


  The problems of the Great Leap Forward were 30% natural disaster and 70% man made

  Could be a criticism of Mao
• What was walking on two legs replaced by?


  Agriculture as the foundation of the economy
• How many people did they send from the towns to live in teh countryside?


  25Mil
• What were some results from the reform 


  By 1965 production levels had returned to a 1957 level

  By mid-1960s private production accounted for 1/3 of all wages paid

  By end of 1962 tools and cart availability was a pre-commune levels
• What did Mao attack the new policies as?


  Revisionism- betraying communist principles
• What was the right side of the party?

  Pragmatics

  Lui & Deng

  Wanted experts

  Didn’t mind private trading

  Wanted good economic results
• What was the left side of the party?


  Ideologicals

  Mao and lin biao