Modernize and industrialize China using the Soviet model (controlled by the state and focused on supporting urban workers and heavy industry to improve the economy)
Land reform—taking the land from landlords (rich or poor) and distributing it to the poor peasants
Collectivize agriculture--farmed goods would collected by the state for redistribution and foreign exports
Give women equal rights (i.e., women were supposed to be submissive to men, particularly to fathers and husbands, in the classic Confucian belief system)
Consolidate a single-party rule, like in the Soviet Union
Some progress in industrialization (156 industrial projects in mining, power generation, and other heavy industries); see data in the chart on the right
Spread of Communist party control over life at the village level through local party leaders
Redistribution of land (Land taken away from landlords and given to poor peasants)
Some landlords were publicly embarrassed, some beaten, others killed by their former tenants
Tremendous growth in membership in the Communist Party
Early gains in agricultural production
Decline in agricultural production after the government took over trade in 1952
Marriage Reform Law—outlaws arranged marriages, gave waves the right to divorce and gave all women the right to inherit property