The Causes Leading The CCP To Change The Original Plan To Transition Towards Socialism

On the issue of transition to socialism, the CPC Central Committee and Mao Zedong have a common point of view before1952:After the democratic revolution, The Chinese Government need to allow private ownership of rural and urban capitalist economy to exist and develop, to play its positive role in promoting the development of productivity. Finally, The Chinese Government would make their efforts to gradually achieve the country’s industrialization, and create material conditions for the transition to socialism community. However, the idea was quickly changed. In the Central Committee meeting in September1952, Mao Zedong proposed that the task to transition to socialism community should be initiated immediately. In June1953, he formally proposed the party’s general line in the transition period and the total task. The reasons that the CPC Central Committee and Mao Zedong had changed the original plan to transition to socialism are varieties. Both the smooth development of the domestic situation, but also the impact of international environment was important facts to the answers, rather than the product of the will of a person.This thesis intends to resolve two main issues:Firstly, the thesis attempts to describe the original plan to transition to socialism, and to find differences and similarities between the original and the Line of the Transition Period; secondly, the thesis will use a combination of internal and external analysis to find the reasons why the original plan to transition to socialism had changed in1953.