The Foundations of the Chinese planned economy : a documentary survey, 1953-1965

A collection of documents concerning the foundations of the Chinese planned economy covering strategy and planning, industrial development and organization, agricultural development and population, and labour and urbanization. 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 Christopher Howe, Kenneth R. Walker. Volume 1 Of A Two-part Survey--pref. Includes Index.