How Did Mao Improve China's Economy

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Historical Investigation – Mao Ze Dong
Aida 10C
Plan Of Investigation
The research question “To what extent did Mao improved China’s economy?” will dig upon Mao’s accomplishment of being a leader, and how much effort he exerts especially for China’s economy. Until now, the subject has been a controversy to the public eye. In this investigation, the method to be used would be planning, researching, summarizing, and concluding. In each stage, thinking, summarizing, and organizing skills are required in order to complete the report with a satisfactory grade.

Time management is very important for the completion of the work. To finish the task before the due date, a constant balance amount of work is needed during the lesson and also after school hours. Though, there are some activities out of school …show more content…

In the end, they hoped to establish an industrial nation with an increasing economic development. During that time, China’s main source of government revenues comes from agricultural taxes, so a lot of approaches were done to maintain this. Unfortunately, in 1955 they experience a large fiscal deficit. Which causes all peasants to join into collectives. They believed collectives would increase agricultural productivity in a large scale so they launched the Great Leap Forward, where a higher production target was aimed. The production increases, however, it didn’t meet the expectations. As a result grain outputs decrease and agricultural taxes are made immoderate, leading to poor harvest and then famine. Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping (another CCP leader) then takeover Mao’s responsibility as a leader where they manage to reduce grain procurement and soon the economy gradually recover. Seeing the recovery, Mao returns and undergoes his job as a leader again where he gets rid of Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping. Which causes agricultural productivity to again