Another one of the complicated Chinese concepts like the 3 and 5 anti campaign the name is a bit of a giveaway, the Five Year Plan was a plan designed to last five years with the aim of modernising China's industry and making the country vastly more productive.

There were 3 stages to Mao’s economic policies during these years, the initial reforms (including the Agrarian Reform and Land Reform Laws), the 1st 5 year plan, and lastly the 2nd 5 year plan (which was quickly replaced by the Great Leap Forward). This section considers the 1st 5 year plan and the GLF and the causes, nature and impact of both.
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A brief overview of the Chinese revolution. If you begin the video at 8:10 it will start with looking at the five year plans.

What were the Aims, Course and Outcome of the First Five Year Plan and Great Leap Forward?



You are to construct two mindmaps on the First five year plan and the Great Leap forward.

For the First Five Year Plan use the video (20:30 - 26:00) and the Todd reading (bottom of the page) on pages 65 - 72 and 97 - 98 to flesh out the subgroups (green) to build up a mind map.
'To what extent was the first five year plan a success'?
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The Great Leap Forward



​Following the success of the First Five Year Plan the Great Leap Forward was launched to transition China to a fully socialist state.

Using the Todd reading and the following video try and analyse the Aims, Course and Outcome. Use the additional reading to flesh out ideas on the Famine.

Now create a mindmap with the following headings in addition to the ones you had for the First Five Year Plan:
Social impacts
Economic results
Political consequences

For the content bubbles use the resources to guide you but you should absolutely include:
The Lusan conference
Famine
Increase in production
Backyard Steel Campaign
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Once you have completed the readings and mind maps head towards the Quizlet here to test your knowledge about the 100 Flowers' Campaign which followed the First 5 year Plan, to see how much you have picked up during your research.