China 1949-1976 - 2nd Five Year Plan

15th of August 1962 [blank_start]Lei Feng[blank_end], 20-year-old soldier, was killed in anaccident in Anshan.

In September 1962 Mao Zedong initiates the [blank_start]Socialist Education Movement[blank_end] which was a rectification style campaign to remove [blank_start]reactionaries[blank_end] from the Chinese Communist party (CCP).

The '[blank_start]Learn From Lei Feng[blank_end]' campaign begins in March 1963 with the publication of the pro-Mao and pro-party diaries of [blank_start]Lei Feng[blank_end].

The Quotations from Chairman [blank_start]Mao Zedong[blank_end], or the famous '[blank_start]Little Red Book[blank_end]' was published in April 1964.

In March of 1958 Mao announces the second Five year Plan known as the [blank_start]Great Leap Forward[blank_end].

An experimental '[blank_start]people's commune[blank_end]' is established in April 1958 in [blank_start]Henan[blank_end].

The Politburo adopts a policy of collectivised '[blank_start]people's communes[blank_end]' in rural areas in August 1958.

Iron production increases by [blank_start]45[blank_end]% in 1958 due to the establishment of '[blank_start]Backyard Furnaces[blank_end]'.

By late 1958 the entire Chinese countryside was organised into around [blank_start]26,000[blank_end] communes.

Within the people's communes there was collective [blank_start]childcare[blank_end], nursing homes amd communal [blank_start]kitchens[blank_end].