The Foundations of the Chinese Planned Economy

Part 1 Strategy and planning: the basic tasks of China's first Five-Year Plan, Wang Guangwei; on the question of agricultural investment in China's first Five-Year Plan, Wei I; for the sake of socialist construction strengthen planning work throughout the country, Xinhua Banyuekan; what lessons have been gained through the experience of preparing and implementing the 1956 State budget? Wang Tzu-ying; the role of China's import trade during the first Five-Year Plan, Lu Shiguang and Huang Junting; break the old balance - establish new balance; discussing the "double-track system", Liao Jili; speech at the conference of provincial and municipal committee secretaries, Mao Zedong; Peng Teh-Huai's "Letter of Opinion"; Chinese Communist Party Central Committee directive on present problems in industry, 15 September 1961, Zongguo Gongye Jingji Fagui Huibian; the present situation in finance and economics and certain measures to overcome difficulties, Chen Yun; talk on the third Five-Year Plan, Mao Zedong. Part 2 Industrial development and organization: overcome the mood of pride and self-satisfaction in leading cadres in industry; give enterprise appropriate powers of autonomy, Zhang Shihong; achievements are the main feature of construction work in the textile industry in recent years, Hang Qing; developing the national iron and steel industry at top speed, Wang Heshou; two problems of industrial location, Yang Chubgwen; in the construction of new coal pits, we should pay attention to co-ordination of production and demand in the locality, Qin Yusheng; we must construct more medium- and small-scale enterprises. Part 3 Agricultural development: speech concerning rural work and problems of agricultural socialist reform, Deng Tzuhui, Chen Yung et al; on internal contradictions within, and democratic management of, agricultural co-operatives, Deng Tzuhui; how to improve the management of agricultural producers' co-operatives - the "special management system" and "contracting output down to the household" are good methods of solving the main contradictions in the co-operatives, Li Yunhe; Chairman Mao comes to Xushui, Kang Zhuo; from agricultural producers' co-operative to people's commune; appraising the adjustment of autumn grain prices, Liu Yunhui and Wang Rongjiu; rejecting the absurd proposal to contract labour and production down to the household; resolution on the further strengthening of the Collective Economy of the People's Communes and expanding Agricultural Production, adopted in September 1962; Proposals of Lianjiang Country Committee concerning the work of readjusting the people's communes through winter and next spring (draft), 5 January 1963. Population and labour and urbanization. (Part contents)