1957-1966
(china.org.cn)
Updated: 2004-06-25 15:58 The 10 years from 1957 to the beginning of the
"cultural revolution" in 1966 was the period in which China started large-scale
socialist construction. The nation's total industrial fixed assets quadrupled
between 1956 and 1966, and the national income increased by 58 percent in terms
of constant prices.
The output of essential industrial products increased several-fold. A group
of new and developing industries were founded, and large-scale agricultural
capital construction and technological transformation unfolded on a large scale.
Both the number of tractors used in agriculture and the volume of chemical
fertilizer increased by more than 600 percent. The 12-Year Plan for Scientific
and Technological Development (1956-1967) was completed five years ahead of
schedule. Outstanding achievements were recorded in many new fields of science
and technology.However, during this dynamic decade, serious mistakes were also
made in the Party and government's guidelines, harming the national
economy.
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