đź“… 15 September 1956
The first Party congress after the founding of the PRC opened in Beijing. Its program called for socialist construction and a more regularized party-state, showing how post-revolutionary sovereignty...
đź“… 20 September 1954
The First National People’s Congress adopted the PRC’s first constitution, defining state institutions and socialist goals. The document formalized a new constitutional order after civil war and...
đź“… 30 Juni 1950
The law abolished landlord landownership and redistributed land to rural households. It broke a deeply unequal agrarian structure and gave many peasants a direct material stake in the new order, while...
đź“… 15 Juni 1953
Mao articulated a line for gradual transition toward socialism, linking industrialization to the transformation of agriculture, handicrafts and private industry. This marked a shift from the Common...
đź“… 20 September 1954
The Constitution established the institutions of the new republic and recognized state, cooperative, individual and capitalist economic forms within a transition toward socialism. It gave legal form...
đź“… 15 September 1956
The Congress declared that socialist transformation of ownership was largely complete and made the development of productive forces a central task. It recognized the tension between an advanced...
đź“… 5 Mei 1958
The second session of the Eighth Party Congress endorsed a drive to achieve rapid industrial and agricultural growth through mass mobilization. The campaign sought to close the gap with advanced...
đź“… 2 Juli 1959
Senior leaders met to discuss economic conditions and the Great Leap. Peng Dehuai’s criticism of exaggerated claims and rural hardship was treated as a political challenge, and he was purged. The...
đź“… 14 Januari 1961
The Ninth Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee adopted a policy to rebalance the national economy after the Great Leap. It prioritized agriculture and essential consumer goods, cut excessive...
đź“… 15 Maart 1961
From 15 to 23 March, a central work conference discussed and adopted draft commune regulations, later known as the “Sixty Articles for Agriculture.” The revisions strengthened the production team as...
đź“… 11 Januari 1962
The large national conference assessed the economic catastrophe and called for practical correction. Liu Shaoqi’s frank acknowledgment of the crisis represented a rare moment of high-level openness....
