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Mao's China 1949-76 Theme 1 Statistics

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Mao establishing communism
01/10/1949: Addressed 300,000 supporters in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
Long March (1934)
100,000 communists march to escape Nationalists
20,000 survive
China industry (1945)
By 1945, China's industrial output was 25% of pre-war level
Rural population (1949)
80% of population
Food production (1945)
In 1945, food production was 30% lower than in 1937
Henan Province Famine
2/3 million died
Bandits (1949)
1 million
Hyperinflation (1940-46)
1940: 100 Chinese yuan could buy a pig,
1945: enough to buy a fish
1946: 100 yuan needed to pay for an egg
Factory output (1949)
44% below 1937 level
Industry workers (1949)
2% population worked in industry
Inflation rate (1949)
1000%
Ethnic and religious groups (1949)
50
Land usage (1949)
15% land cultivatable
Population growth (1949-1953)
1949: 541 million
1953: 587 million
Chinese People's Political Consultative conference
662 delegates, minority groups included
State officials (1949-59)
1949: 720,000
1959: 8 million
Party membership (1949-50)
1949: 4.5 million members
End of 1950: 5.8 million members
Central committee members (1949)
49 members
Politburo
25 members
Youth League
9 million members by 1953
Women's federation
76 million members
PLA (1950) - financial
40% state budget (including navy and airforce)
PLA soldiers (1950-57)
1950: 5 million soldiers
1953: 3.5 million soldiers
1957: 2.5 million soldiers
Young PLA conscripts
800,000 recruited each year
China's population (1949)
540 million
Terror against enemies of party (1950-51)
1/2 million killed
How many arrested in Campaign to Suppress counter revolutionaries?
2.6 million people
Counter-revolutionary deaths (1951)
800,000 recorded during first half of 1951
What were the 3 Antis
Anti-corruption
Anti-waste
Anti-bureaucratism
3 Antis movement (1951)
>1 million government servants fired
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Anti's Campaigns Suicides
C. 200,000-300,000 suicides
What were the 5 Antis
Bribery
Theft of state property
Tax evasion
Cheating on government contracts
Theft of state secrets
5 Antis Campaign (1952)
In Shanghai, 99% of businessmen found guilty of one of the 5 antis
Resistance to invasion in tibet
60,000 attempted to resist
Suppress the counter revolutionaries campaign - Guangdong
28,000 killed
Uyghurs population in Xinjiang
80% of population
Criminals targeted
150,000 arrested
Half were executed
Tao Zhu killing (1950-51)
Claimed responsibility for killing over 46,000 alleged bandits
Luo Ruiqing killing (1951)
Pressured leader of Hubei province which led to killings increasing
From 220 in Jan 1951 to 45,000 by Oct
28 April 1951 - terror in cities
Police swept through 16 cities and
Arrested 17,000 (led to confessions, executions, suicides)
Effect of terror ( By 1954)
710,000 - 2 million killed
3 Antis campaign - Bo Yibo
He claimed that he had hunted down 100,000 people guilt of large-scale corrpution
3 Antis campaign victims
1% shot
1% sent to labour camps for life
3% jailed for over 10 years
Rest fined
Labour camps - prisoners
By 1953, 2 million prisoners (1/2 worked in laogai)
500,000 sent in Anti-Rightist campaign
Labour camps - conditions
Tin mines in Guangdong
1/3 committed suicide or died of disease within 1 year of incarceration
Labour camps - political prisoners
300,000 doctors, experts and engineers sent to labour camps in campaigns
Labour camps - financial benefit
Contributed 700 million yuan in industrial products to state each year by 1955
Contributed 350,000 tonnes of grain to state each year by 1955
Laogai deaths
C. 15 million in total under Mao
Guanzhi
740,000 people under this system in 1953 (could be higher)
Anti-Rightist Campaign victims
400,000-700,000 intellectuals purged
Human cost of Korean War
400,000 (of 3 million sent) chinese died
Financial cost of Korean War
Half government spending went on millionitary in 1951
Annual budget was 75% higher in 1951 than 1950
War cost PRC $10 billion
Korean war - war conditions
90% troops reported to have suffered from frostbite
Trade Embargo on Chinese goods
Caused 30% fall in foreign trade in first 6 months of 1951
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