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What were the aims domestic economic policies?
Wanted to make China a superpower and achieve more independence from the USSR
What were the impacts of domestic economic policies?
There was a period of economic growth after Greap Leap forward but only 1% of steel production could be used as 99% was poor quality
Drought and famine
What were the aims of domestic political policies?
Establish and maintain absolute authority of CCP over all aspects of Chinese life
Eliminate feudal landownership and redistribute land to peasants, collectivizing agriculture
Transform China from agrarian economy to industrialized socialist state (Five-Year Plans and Great Leap forward)
What were the impacts of domestic political policies?
The CCP became the central and uncontested power in China
Land redistribution won support from peasants, but collectivization led to inefficiencies, resistance and contributed to Great Famine
Some industrial progress was made, Great Leap Forward resulted in economic disarray and severe famine
What were the aims of domestic cultural policies?
Preserve communist ideology by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society, enforce Mao Zedong Thought
What were the impacts of domestic cultural policies?
Caused widespread cultural destruction and severe disruption to education and intellectual life
What were the aims of domestic social policies?
Eliminate class distinctions and encourage equality
Promote gender equality and dismantle traditional patriarchal system
Eliminate bourgeois elements and enforce socialist culture
What were the impacts of domestic social policies?
Eliminating the four olds lead to widespread social upheaval
Women were given more rights, but the implementation was inconsistent and deepled ingrained norms persisted
Traditional culture was suppressed and dismantled
Policies on women
“Women hold up half the sky”
Killing unwanted baby girls was abolished, foot binding outlawed, girls expected to go to school and work
Forbade arranged marriage and child marriage
Divorce was allowed
Right to vote
Same property rights
Drive to curb prostitution
Policies on minorities
Five Black Categories
Non-Han ethnicities were persecuted
Religious minorities were opressed
To what extent was authoritarian control achieved?
Was never elected, came to power through civil war
No room for individual thought, blind submission
One-party state
No political or civil rights
Control over media and army
Labour camps or prisons for those who did not comply
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