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    On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong declared the founding of the People's Republic of China in Tiananmen Square, ending over 20 years of civil war between the Nationalists and Communists. In its early days, New China focused on economic recovery and establishing socialist public ownership while rebuilding political institutions nationwide. During its first Five-Year Plan from 1953 to 1957, China achieved rapid industrialization and established basic industries. From 1957 to 1966, China engaged in large-scale socialist construction. However, the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976 caused serious setbacks, until Deng Xiaoping instituted economic and political reforms in 1979 to modernize China.

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    On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong declared the founding of the People's Republic of China in Tiananmen Square, ending over 20 years of civil war between the Nationalists and Communists. In its early days, New China focused on economic recovery and establishing socialist public ownership while rebuilding political institutions nationwide. During its first Five-Year Plan from 1953 to 1957, China achieved rapid industrialization and established basic industries. From 1957 to 1966, China engaged in large-scale socialist construction. However, the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976 caused serious setbacks, until Deng Xiaoping instituted economic and political reforms in 1979 to modernize China.

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    On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong declared the founding of the People's Republic of China in Tiananmen Square, ending over 20 years of civil war between the Nationalists and Communists. In its early days, New China focused on economic recovery and establishing socialist public ownership while rebuilding political institutions nationwide. During its first Five-Year Plan from 1953 to 1957, China achieved rapid industrialization and established basic industries. From 1957 to 1966, China engaged in large-scale socialist construction. However, the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976 caused serious setbacks, until Deng Xiaoping instituted economic and political reforms in 1979 to modernize China.

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    On October 1, 1949, in a grand ceremony witnessed by Beijing people in Tiananmen Square,


    Mao Zedong, chairman of the Central People’s Government, solemnly proclaimed the founding
    of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). This declaration signified a revolution in China that
    brought an end to the costliest civil war in Chinese history between the Nationalist Party or
    Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that had lasted a period of 22 years
    from 1927 to 1949.
    The early days of New China were a period of economic recovery. While developing production,
    China gradually established socialist public ownership of the means of production.
    The cost of restoring order and building up integrated political institutions at all levels
    throughout the country proved important in setting China’s course for the next two decades.
    Revolutionary priorities had to be made consonant with other needs. During the initial post-
    Liberation period, the Chinese government successfully carried out land reform and also have
    got amazing achievements during the First Five-Year Plan (1953-1957). China established basic
    industries, that were necessary for full industrialization, such as, producing airplanes,
    automobiles, heavy machinery, metallurgical and mining equipment.
    The socialist transformation of agriculture, industry, and commerce thus went relatively
    smoothly.
    During this initial period, the CCP made great strides toward bringing the country through 3
    critical transitions: from economic prostration to economic growth, from political disintegration
    to political strength, and from military rule to civilian rule. The determination and capabilities
    demonstrated during these first years provided the CCP with a reservoir of popular support.
    A priority goal of the communist political system was to raise China to the status of a great
    power. While pursuing this goal, the “centre of gravity” of communist policy shifted from the
    countryside to the city, but Mao Zedong insisted that the revolutionary vision forged in the rural
    struggle would continue to guide the party.
    The ten years from 1957 to 1966 was the period where China started large-scale socialist
    construction.
    Unfortunately, the “Cultural Revolution,” which lasted for ten years (1966-1976), made the state
    and its people suffer the most serious setbacks and losses since its founding.
    The Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary clique was smashed in 1976, marking the end of this
    “Revolution,” and the beginning of a new era. The CPC reinstated Deng Xiaoping, former
    general secretary, to all the posts he had been dismissed from during the “Cultural Revolution.”
    In 1979, China instituted a guiding policy of “reform and opening to the outside world” under his
    leadership, and the focus was shifted to modernization. Major efforts were made to reform
    economic and political systems.
    Jiang Zemin became general secretary of the CPC Central Committee in 1989 and head of state
    in 1993. After Hu Jintao took the position of general secretary in 2002 and president of the state
    in 2003. In 2012, as Hu Jintao neared the end of his presidential term, China’s vice president, Xi
    Jinping, was positioned to succeed him, and that November Xi Jinping took over both positions.
    Hu Jintao stepped down from the presidency in March 2013 after Xi Jinping was elected to the
    office.

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