The First Five Year Plan Case Study

As a result of the successful economic plan that had taken place in the early 1950s under the First Five Year Plan, Mao Zedong wanted to change China from an agrarian society to an industrial society to catch the United States and other capitalist countries by pushing the Great Leap Forward in just 15 years. Both of The great leap forward in China and the second industrial revolution in America wanted to arrive the same goal, they wanted to push industrial development across the country to become a strong country. However, they had different and even opposite consequence. American was different with china. “The second industrial revolution” made American capitalist economy grew faster than other countries in the nineteenth century, America
The central people's government of the People's Republic of China was set up in1949. After 8 years of anti-Japanese war and 3 years of civil war, the Communist Party of China needed to rebuild industrial force and military force eagerly to cement its regime and reconstruction. Through the first five-year plan, China preliminary built an independent industrial system in China and laid a preliminarily basis for the socialist industrialization. This greatest accomplishment of the first five-year plan attracted the high level leaders of China who wanted to push a national industrial action eagerly, even though they didn’t have any industrial experts and technologies. They believed willpower of workers will help them to finish this
After the second industrial revolution, the United States began to seek the way to get global hegemony. In fact, the consequence of second industrial revolution is a very important key for America. America used the second industrial revolution as a chance not only catch the England but also a member of the world's industrial powers. It made the United States have enough industrial and military base that can challenge the old Capitalization nation in World War 1. But the great leap forward was totally different with the second industrial revolution. The consequence of the great leap forward destroyed the Chinese economy and made Chinese industry regressed to five years before. The great leap forward truly made Chinese industry and economy resuscitated in a short time, but it was a false appearance. The establishment of new China influenced Mao Zedong and other comrades to bred complacent emotions. They promised China can become a stronger country in 7 years. The big pressure made farmers counterfeit their grain output and produced plenty useless steel to achieve goal, making Chinese grain stored for state inveracious. Government encouraged citizens to transfer their iron pans and farm implements into usable steel. However these inferior metal couldn’t be use in the industrial