Study On The Great Leap Forward Movement In Guangzhou City

As a major event in the history of the People's Republic of China,the Great Leap Forward Movement has always been the focus of the study of the history of the Party and the nation.The "Great Leap Forward" movement profoundly changed the production,life and spiritual outlook of the urban masses at that time.Exploring the rise and fall of the Great Leap Forward movement at the urban grass-roots level is of great significance to sum up the experience and lessons of the Great Leap Forward movement,which is a utopian practice,adhere to the principle of seeking truth from facts,correctly implement the Party's mass line and promote the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.Street is the basic unit of a city.Street mass organizations participate in the production and living activities of the Great Leap Forward Movement.In view of this,this paper makes an investigation of the street industry and welfare undertakings in the Great Leap Forward Movement in Guangzhou City by using the original files and newspaper materials at the grass-roots level.Under the background of the Great Leap Forward Movement,Guangzhou's street industry and welfare undertakings experienced a tortuous process of establishment,climax,rectification and compression.Under the planned economy system,the ownership form,profit distribution mode and production,supply and marketing problems of street industry have not been effectively solved,and finally stopped with the end of the "Great Leap Forward" movement.In order to liberate women's labor force and promote production,street people also set up nurseries,kindergartens,public canteens and other Street welfare undertakings.However,due to the shortage of funds,limited space,insufficient personnel and imperfect management system,these Street welfare undertakings are also withdrawing from the historical stage in the process of adjustment.The street industry and welfare undertakings in Guangzhou's "Great Leap Forward" movement seem to have their own independent development trajectories,but they are both products under the slogan of "production as the center".They are closely related and mutually reinforcing.The rise and fall of one side also directly affects the other side.Street industry provides a source of funds for the welfare undertakings of the streets,and the welfare undertakings of the streets ensure the industrial production to a certain extent.Under the interdependence of production and life,after the suspension of street industry,women lose their income sources and re-engage in housework,and Street welfare services such as nurseries,kindergartens and public canteens also lose the need for survival.The rapid development of street industry and welfare undertakings in the Great Leap Forward movement in Guangzhou urban area is related to the mass' s rush under the policy call.The end of the movement is also the inevitable result of the policy adjustment and the mass' s passive response in the later period of the campaign,and is the result of the comprehensive effect of internal and external factors.In a sense,on the one hand,the whole movement seeks the balance between production and life of the masses,on the other hand,it runs through the will of the state to transform and control the urban grass-roots units.