Geography of Human Wellbeing Report - China

The 3 5-year plans focused on heavy industry, as well as an emphasis on electricity, coal, oil and steel. The latter sections of industry greatly increased including coal (million tons) rising to 128 in 1937. Although during this time period, famine and forced labour occured, the 5-year plans were a success. Through the implementation of Collectivization and the 5-year plans, it can be seen how Stalinism impacted upon the economy, and thus the Soviet State.

The first thing I wanted to find out was some basic information about China. There was a lot of information about China. First of all China’s location is located in the eastern part of Asia. China’s land area is pretty massive. It’s about 9,596,960 square kilometers, therefore that’s enormous.

Every five years starting in 1953, the Chinese government issued an outline of the countries economic outline for the next five years. The First Five-Year Plan followed the Soviet model, which focused on stimulating economic growth by developing heavy industry such as mining and iron/steel manufacturing. The plan was effective, but because of China's late start it caused them to fall back behind other industrial nations. Mao mobilized the Chinese people to speed up the process of industrialization in order to catch up with the other nations. Mao needed to change direction but he faced disapproval with the Chinese Communist Party because of his massive failing for the Great Leap Forward. Mao became concerned that China was moving away from socialist ideals to capitalism.

China is the third largest nation in the world it has 3,691,502 square miles. China boarders’ thirteen countries, including Russia and Mongolia to the north, Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam to the south and India to the southwest, The Yellow Sea, the South China Sea, and the East China Sea to the east. The climate is extremely diverse, ranging from subarctic to the north and tropical to the south. Hills, plains and deltas characterize the eastern regions. China also hold the highest point in the world, the great and ever challenging Mount Everest, on the border between

Looking back in history, one of the most dominant figures in Chinese politics in the 1930’s was Mao Zedong. Mao is very well known as the leader of the CCP as well as a dictator. Mao was inspired by revolutionary potential of peasantry and wanted to create a revolutionary strategy that would rely on their strength. During the First Five-Year Plan, a period between 1953 and 1957, some of the goals of the communist Chinese government were to increase heavy industrial production, collectivize light industry and retail enterprises, and create agricultural communes.

For any of those willing to travel around China, we will now explore China’s geography. China is located on the eastern Eurasian peninsula. The Yangtze and the Yellow rivers flow through China bringing silt and water, making farming possible. These rivers are supported by heavy rains and snowmelt. Sadly, in the flood season, the Yellow River gives out some deadly floods. This is why we nicknamed it “China’s Sorrow”. Even though it is a deadly danger, the Yellow River brings and deposits 1.4 billion tons of silt, some of which goes into the Yellow Sea. Our civilization grew up because of cities on the banks of rivers, which were supported by the fertile silt brought over which could be used for agriculture-just like in Mesopotamia.

Well, first of all China is currently and has always been located in the continent of Asia, towards the East Side. It is surrounded by approximately fourteen countries, and by the Pacific Ocean. China is currently ranked the fourth biggest country is the world. It has a population of approximately of 1,382,094,034 billion of

In the year 1958, the People’s Republic of China was looking to be on the cusp of modernization. With the Communist Party of China (CPC) coming to power in 1949 and the nation ripe for communist organization similar to that of the Soviet Union, Chairman Mao Zedong and his advisors looked to transition China from a socialist structure until the standard of living improved to the point where the country could become fully communist. With a population of over half a million, this goal was not out of reach, and the people of China knew that they had the potential to establish their dominance as an industrial superpower. The Great Leap Forward, set to span over several years starting in 1958, was a movement meant to industrialize China to the level of the UK by utilizing the massive peasant farmer population and moving part of them to the urban center in northern and western China, collectivizing the remaining farmer population.

The goals of Deng Xiaoping’s economic reform were the ‘Four Modernizations’. This Four Modernization refers to the reform of agriculture, industry, national defense, and science technology. These reforms were to solve the problems of motivating workers and farmers to produce a larger surplus and to eliminate economic imbalances that were common in command economies.

China, located in East Asia, is the third largest country by area and the largest

The first step taken by Zedong was to promote the technology. The promotion of technology wasn't an easy move though he managed by turning all the crop fields especially the rice fields into factories. Even though it was a great move, it left many farmers jobless. Mao followed by focussing on educational institutes where he conducted his goals through the help of the Red Guards group. This group was formed through mass mobilization and it consisted of only the youths from the urban centers.

China is one of the largest countries on earth, it is four times the size of the United States. In recent years China has made headlines in becoming a global powerhouse. However, China was not always a vibrant country due to domestic problems that caused little to no economic growth for a period. Under the leadership of Mao, the focus was to increase the food supply to feed China’s growing population. The Mao administration redistributed farm land to the peasants where they did not have to pay any rent. This meant that the peasants could invest extra profit to help better the farming soil. Mao would buy the crops from the peasants for a low price and then sell them to outside for a high price. The profit Mao made would be put back into the economy to stimulate growth. Over time the peasants began to consume more food resulting in less food for the

Many situations had happened to China when Mao Zedong came into power. There was The Five Year Plan, which focused on to achieve industrialization, collectivization, agriculture, and political centralization. It mostly stressed on the development of heavy industry, which caused suffering to the people. The

based in lowland plains which makes up 12 percent and basins that take about 19 percent of

Mao built communes throughout areas of china which contained on average five-thousand families. These turned out to be well controlled communities where the residents gave up all ownership of possessions, land, etc. The elderly and young children were looked after so healthy family members could work and not have to worry about them. Mao in May of 1958 launched another plan: the Great Leap Forward. This was Mao's economic plan to transform China into an industrial nation in two years. The plan was to decentralize agriculture and create communes which would promote heavy industry and agricultural production. The Great Leap Forward seemed to symbolize Mao's embrace of technology and industry. In 1958 700 million people had been placed in to 26, 785 communes. Small villages would set rice quotas and economic priorities and work as a group, sharing resources for the harvest. Communes can be seen as based on the Confucian idea of obligation. Traditionally, Confucianism obligated a child to respect a parent. Communes, according to Mao would replace that obligation to parents, with an obligation to Communism. The government worked tirelessly to keep workers motivated by vast propaganda tools. Devices such as, political speeches played in the fields, or goal setting was common. Also back-yard steel smelting furnaces were used which unfortunately produced poor qualities of steel, and over-consumed coal which led to a massive shortage.