The Foundations of the Chinese Planned Economy: A Documentary Survey, 1953–65

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-9
The Basic Tasks of China’s First Five-year Plan....Pages 10-19
On the Question of Agricultural Investment in China’s First Five-year Plan....Pages 20-28
For the Sake of Socialist Construction Strengthen Planning Work Throughout the Country....Pages 29-40
What Lessons Have Been Gained Through the Experience of Preparing and Implementing the 1956 State Budget?....Pages 41-51
The Role of China’s Import Trade During the First Five-year Plan....Pages 52-62
Break the Old Balance: Establish New Balance....Pages 63-68
Discussing the ‘Double-track System’....Pages 69-77
Speech at the Conference of Provincial and Municipal Committee Secretaries....Pages 78-87
Peng Dehuai’s ‘Letter of Opinion’....Pages 88-94
Chinese Communist Party Central Committee Directive on Present Problems in Industry, 15 September 1961....Pages 95-114
The Present Situation in Finance and Economics and Certain Measures to Overcome Difficulties....Pages 115-130
Talk on the Third Five-year Plan....Pages 131-134
Back Matter....Pages 135-137
Front Matter....Pages 139-146
Overcome the Mood of Pride and Self-satisfaction in Leading Cadres in Industry....Pages 147-152
Give Enterprises Appropriate Powers of Autonomy....Pages 153-157
Achievements Are the Main Feature of Construction Work in the Textile Industry in Recent Years....Pages 158-164
Developing the National Iron and Steel Industry at Top Speed....Pages 165-171
Two Problems of Industrial Location....Pages 172-180
In the Construction of New Coalpits, We Should Pay Attention to Co-ordination of Production and Demand in the Locality....Pages 181-185
We Must Construct More Medium- and Small-scale Enterprises....Pages 186-191
Bo Yibo Discusses The Ten Great Advantages of Steel Smelting Being Carried Out By All the People....Pages 192-193
Back Matter....Pages 194-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-202
Speech Concerning Rural Work and Problems of Agricultural Socialist Reform....Pages 203-211
On Internal Contradictions Within, and Democratic Management of, Agricultural Co-operatives....Pages 212-236
How to Improve the Management of Agricultural Producers’ Co-operatives. The ‘Special Management System’ and ‘Contracting Output Down to the Household’ Are Good Methods of Solving the Main Contradictions in the Co-operatives....Pages 237-246
Chairman Mao Comes to Xushui....Pages 247-250
From Agricultural Producers’ Co-operative to People’s Commune....Pages 251-264
Appraising the Adjustment of Autumn Grain Prices....Pages 265-267
Rejecting the Absurd Proposal to Contract Labour and Production Down To The Household....Pages 268-274
Section 7 of Resolutions on the Further Strengthening of the Collective Economy of the People’s Communes and Expanding Agricultural Production, Adopted in September 1962....Pages 275-276
Proposals of Lianjiang County Committee [Fujian Province] Concerning the Work of Readjusting the People’s Communes through Winter and next Spring (Draft), 5 January 1963....Pages 277-283
Back Matter....Pages 284-285
Front Matter....Pages 287-293
A Discussion of the Momentous Significance of New China’s First Population Census Viewed From Several Questions Concerning Population....Pages 294-299
A New Theory of Population....Pages 300-322
China’s Current Population Situation and the Raising of Labour Productivity....Pages 323-325
Do Not Permit Rightists to Make Use of the Population Problem in Order to Promote Political Conspiracies....Pages 326-334
Why We Must Implement a Rational, Low Wage System....Pages 335-344
Why Must We Reduce Urban Population?....Pages 345-350
Steadfastly Reduce Non-productive Urban Population....Pages 351-357
Research Into the Problem of the Scale of Urban Development....Pages 358-365
Back Matter....Pages 366-366
Back Matter....Pages 367-370