The Foundations of the Chinese Planned Economy

Chapter 1 The Basic Tasks of China’s First Five-year Plan

Chapter 2 On the Question of Agricultural Investment in China’s First Five-year Plan

Chapter 3 For the Sake of Socialist Construction Strengthen Planning Work Throughout the Country

Chapter 4 What Lessons Have Been Gained Through the Experience of Preparing and Implementing the 1956 State Budget?

Chapter 5 The Role of China’s Import Trade During the First Five-year Plan

Chapter 6 Break the Old Balance: Establish New Balance

Chapter 7 Discussing the ‘Double-track System’

Chapter 8 Speech at the Conference of Provincial and Municipal Committee Secretaries

Chapter 9 Peng Dehuai’s ‘Letter of Opinion’

Chapter 10 Chinese Communist Party Central Committee Directive on Present Problems in Industry, 15 September 1961

Chapter 11 The Present Situation in Finance and Economics and Certain Measures to Overcome Difficulties

Chapter 12 Talk on the Third Five-year Plan

Chapter 13 Overcome the Mood of Pride and Self-satisfaction in Leading Cadres in Industry

Chapter 14 Give Enterprises Appropriate Powers of Autonomy

Chapter 15 Achievements Are the Main Feature of Construction Work in the Textile Industry in Recent Years

Chapter 16 Developing the National Iron and Steel Industry at Top Speed

Chapter 17 Two Problems of Industrial Location

Chapter 18 In the Construction of New Coalpits, We Should Pay Attention to Co-ordination of Production and Demand in the Locality

Chapter 19 We Must Construct More Medium- and Small-scale Enterprises

Chapter 20 Bo Yibo Discusses The Ten Great Advantages of Steel Smelting Being Carried Out By All the People

Chapter 21 Speech Concerning Rural Work and Problems of Agricultural Socialist Reform

Chapter 22 On Internal Contradictions Within, and Democratic Management of, Agricultural Co-operatives

Chapter 23 How to Improve the Management of Agricultural Producers’ Co-operatives. The ‘Special Management System’ and ‘Contracting Output Down to the Household’ Are Good Methods of Solving the Main Contradictions in the Co-operatives

Chapter 24 Chairman Mao Comes to Xushui

Chapter 25 From Agricultural Producers’ Co-operative to People’s Commune

Chapter 26 Appraising the Adjustment of Autumn Grain Prices

Chapter 27 Rejecting the Absurd Proposal to Contract Labour and Production Down To The Household

Chapter 28 Section 7 of Resolutions on the Further Strengthening of the Collective Economy of the People’s Communes and Expanding Agricultural Production, Adopted in September 1962

Chapter 29 Proposals of Lianjiang County Committee [Fujian Province] Concerning the Work of Readjusting the People’s Communes through Winter and next Spring (Draft), 5 January 1963

Chapter 30 A Discussion of the Momentous Significance of New China’s First Population Census Viewed From Several Questions Concerning Population

Chapter 31 A New Theory of Population

Chapter 32 China’s Current Population Situation and the Raising of Labour Productivity

Chapter 33 Do Not Permit Rightists to Make Use of the Population Problem in Order to Promote Political Conspiracies

Chapter 34 Why We Must Implement a Rational, Low Wage System

Chapter 35 Why Must We Reduce Urban Population?

Chapter 36 Steadfastly Reduce Non-productive Urban Population

Chapter 37 Research Into the Problem of the Scale of Urban Development