An Economic Development of Strategic Significance in Communist China.

Richard H. Moorsteen

Expert InsightsPublished 1958

A discussion of the military implications of the Chinese Communist program, initiated toward the end of 1957, of building very small industrial enterprises to be located in towns, rural villages, or on collective farms. The small plant campaign could result in an unusual decentralization of future economic development and in the Chinese economy's becoming extraordinarily resilient under enemy attack, if it fulfills even a part of Chinese expectations. Furthermore, the new patterns of development, relying primarily on relatively unskilled labor, local building materials, and widely distributed natural resources, are well adapted to the work of economic recuperation in a post-attack period. 5 pp.

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  • Year: 1958
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  • Document Number: P-1578

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