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For my second leader I have picked Deng Xiaoping.
Deng Xiaoping was known as a great leader in China. He turned the economy around from being one of the worst in the world, to being the 2nd largest economy in the world. Deng wanted to modernize China, and boost its economy, and so he went on to do just that. Deng Xiaoping showed his leadership during the dark days of China.
Deng Xiaoping was a partner, and follower of Mao Zedong during early communism. There was a policy saying that Farmers are to remove the ruler of the certain amount of land, and to share the land with the farmers. So Deng shared the land among 18 other farmers under one condition, you must pay some of the amount out of it.(as tax)The remaining
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China was still recovering from the Cultural Revolution. And amazingly, when he left in 1992 several hundred million citizens in china have been brought out of poverty and got jobs. China has gotten more richer and modern then before, and China has gotten an economical boost since Deng Xiaoping was the leader. Deng modernized china, and made it a safer, and more better place to live in then before.
To prepare for the plan to modernize China, Deng made close relationships with the leading countries in the world. He made close relations with Europe and he paved the way in his visit to France in 1975. Deng also made a Peace Treaty and Friends with Japan in 1978, he then went on to visit Japan in that year of October that won support of Japanese politicians and business leaders. Deng also negotiated with the U.S and visited the U.S in 1979 in which he was in good terms with their
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Deng shortly after becoming the Leader went straight to wanting to achieve the goals he had wanted too achieve ever since he was a little kid, because he already knew about China's system and how bad it was. Deng was a pretty smart kid for his age. Things in China were really bad even before Deng became the leader, lot's of poverty, people with no jobs, no houses, and lot's of people were just living off the street.
Deng wanted to change all of this and he even said he would when he went off to France to participate in their program over there. So during a small amount of time in Deng's leadership, he did all that he could to get people off the street's. So he introduced the whole tax thing for them so that the citizens can at least afford stuff for themselves as long as they pay this much amount of money so that the Government can use that money.
In about a short period of a couple month's, Deng has already gotten people off the street's and focused on expanding large businesses so that other people can work in the business. This was a big boost so that China can help more people who were struggling at the time.
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Mao Zedong was a communist that overcame many objectives to become a leader of China. There were many weaknesses and strengths of the communist. There was also weakness and strengths in the Nationalists. During his rule in World War 2 Japanese invaded China. Where both communist and Nationalist dealt with the invasion. The Soviet Union played a vital role in the Civil War. After Mao’s death, Deng Xiaoping took over and used the four modernizations to Reform China to restore the economic system. Mao found the PRC or better known as the People’s Republic of China.
He wanted to economically catch up with international superpowers such as the United States. He then told the Chinese people that, “people are the most precious,” inferring that if there were more people, then there will be more workers and therefore a stronger China. Not only did a population boom occur, but many Chinese were forced to leave their agricultural
Many factors such as, growing liberalization, economic disparities, and inflations. led to the protests. During Mao Ze Dong's leadership, the Chinese government collectivized industries and agriculture. After his death, his successor Deng Xiao Ping implemented the Gai Ge Kai Fang policy, de-collectivizing industries and agriculture. (Huenemann 2017) This policy also allowed citizens greater freedom. Some academics even received encouragement from the government to take an active political stance. (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica) Following the privatization of agriculture and industries, China experienced great economic growth. Unfortunately, this also caused the rate of corruption, and economic disparities to surge. China also experienced price inflations as it
The economy of China boomed once Deng opened its market to foreign investment. It was this shift that caused Wong to start to feel “schizophrenic” (186), and made her reflect on exactly who she was and what she truly believed in. It was also here that a small sentiment of democracy begin to upheave.
This paper aims to find out the differences between the developmental strategies of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping are important characters of China's history. Both great leaders and both tried to bring about reform with China. In addition, through the facts that society in China has been changing in recent decades, evaluate the achievements of each in the contribution to economic and social development of China.
Over the course of Mao’s leadership from 1949 until his death in 1976 we can see the significance of his leadership and what made him a good and bad leader. Mao had made some very good decisions to help certain groups but also made some very bad decisions that paid the price, in some cases killing millions. Due to the social and economic changes that then followed by a significant increase in the population and weak leadership that led to rebellions from 1911 that saw the end of 3500years of rule by the Chinese imperial dynasties. The social and economic chaos then led to the formation of two political parties. The CCP, led by Mao Zedong and the GMD led by Chiang Kai Shek. Mao and his party defeated the GMD in 1949 bringing Mao into power. Mao’s main goal was to turn China into a pure communist country. Over the course of Mao’s leadership he did this by making significant social, economic and political changes to the Chinese way of life. However due to his poor leadership and the faults that he made it caused people to oppose him and get in the way of his goal. That is why in 1966 Mao decided to assert his beliefs through a series of decisions, which came to be known as the Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution was a hard time for many people throughout China as Mao enforced many things upon them to achieve his aim of removing capitalism. Mao used the youth of China to be that
China's transition from the leadership under the iron fist of Mao Zedong to the more liberal Deng Xiao Ping gave the People's Republic a gradual increase in economic freedom while maintaining political stability. During Mao's regime, the country focused on bolstering and serving the community, while subsequently encumbering individual growth and prosperity. Deng advocated a more capitalist economic ideology, which established China as an economic force in the global community while endowing its citizens with more liberties and luxuries than previously granted.
Here are the facts: During its 64 years running the largest country in the world, the range of the Party's policies was broader than any country in recent history. Radical land collectivization and the Great Leap Foreward, then the quasi-privatization of farmland. The Cultural Revolution, then Deng Xiaoping's market reforms. Deng's successor, Jiang Zemin, took the giant political step of opening up Party membership to private businesspeople – something unimaginable during Mao's rule. The Party self-corrects in rather dramatic fashions.
Deng Xiaoping has been the individual with the most impact on China since the 1970’s. Along with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, he is looked at as one of the key figures in evolution of communism in China . Deng Xiaoping will be remembered as a national hero, but this was not always the case. The real story of Deng includes the fact that, on more than one occasion, his peers ostracized him. During his lifetime he has been a part of the many changes in China throughout the twentieth century. He was by Mao Zedong’s side through all of the struggles of the Chinese Communist Party; battling with Chiang Kai-shek and the Guomindang over
Deng Xiaoping’s life had been ups and downs over the sixty years in China. His ideology and philosophy for making a great nation definitely changed along with his experiences during these years. There are total three stages
Feeling this was not enough to boost the economic up, Deng loaned money from IMF and the World Bank “to upgrade machinery and establish new manufacturing and industrial development” (Benson, 48). He opened a total of five towns and villages as SEZs and allowed foreign investors to build factories and hire Chinese to work for them. It might not be the best way to reform the economic as a whole, but it played an important role because it benefited the Chinese workers, the investors, and the Chinese government. During the 1980s, Deng promoted the “open door” policy to encourage foreign investment and to trade with the world. China needed larger quantities of raw materials to fuel its industrial growth so they signed contracts for minerals, timer, and so forth. It had not only provided China with raw materials that were needed, but also improved the relations with other neighbor counties and the US.
We will begin our analysis of these questions by examining China’s economy at the time of Deng Xiaoping’s accession to power in 1978 and the economic growth strategy he and his successor implemented which ultimately led China to ascension into the WTO. We will then review various conditions imposed upon China by the WTO and how China reacted to those changes and to what extent these lead to China’s current status and interaction
When Deng came into power, China's economy had not progressed as much as Mao had imagined it would. The crisis in communism had also had an adverse effect on the economy. Deng's catch phrase "it doesn't matter if the cat is black or white so long as it catches the mouse" encapsulates his entire approach towards economic reform. His economic reforms were very obviously not in line with communism at all but he felt that if they could bring greater prosperity to China, it was worth it to adopt these new measures.
In accordance to this, China went on a construction binge. Whole factories were purchased from abroad while others were built with local resources. By 1978, the frenzy for new projects reached a level that reminded some people of the Great Leap Forward. In an effort to promote agricultural production, the government released many of the restrictions on the 'spontaneous capitalist tendencies' of the peasantry. (173) In the late 1980's, the government decided to expand the scope of private marketing. The next step was to increase the amount land assigned to the peasants. The peasants were now not responsible to the government for the use they made to the private plots. They simply could grow what they wished, for the sale to the government or to private markets. This led to furious rebuilding and inflow of foreign investments. All this enabled China to remake itself into Asian's hub of finance, trade and culture.
Growth in exports and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) was extremely important to China’s economic success. During Mao’s last years in power, China was inaccessible to the outside world and this was costing the country growth-wise. Other countries such as Japan and Hong Kong were experiencing rapid growth from exports as shown in Exhibit 6, and China wanted to follow in their footsteps. The country has hard-working and educated people who could help make this a reality and Deng knew this was the next step in helping the country to be among the most advanced and most improved4. The United States has always been a wise contender and is always looking for ways to better its