Land reform is largely complete across most of...

Economic reforms in China 📅 31 December 1952 📍 China

By the end of 1952, land redistribution had been completed across most of the mainland, although implementation in some minority regions followed a different timetable. Hundreds of millions of rural people experienced a redistribution of land and the collapse of landlord power. The achievement was transformative, but the date marks an end-of-year status rather than one nationwide act; the state soon shifted its priority toward industrialization and collective production.

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