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XeacNo.2. for September 19529 BEPURT FROM CHINAs Early next month, Red China is celebrating the third anniversar of its present communist-controled regime. Although a vast country, with one of the oldest civilizations and traditions in the world, and with a heavy weight aff inertia and of conservatism, China has undergone in those three years a doubthessly unprecenfied revolutionary transformations In its past history, it would have certainly take, the country many centuries to reach a similar degree of change, at least in outward appearance, organizational setting and public policies. — oe ae icgonomic reorganizations The first three-year plan, set forth by the Mao Tse-tung regime is nearing its ende Its main goal was the rehabilitation of war damages and the rising of China's economy to its pre=war level. VicePremier Chen-Yun, as head of the Committee for Economic and Financial Affairs in Peiping, carries the main responsibility for the achievement of that aim. Official statements Chaim that pre-war pmuudsurtimn outlay is already reached by somé’foutry's basic productions, such as cereal and Soyabeans, tea and rice, leather, cotton and textiles, coal, iron and S@&at. According to most reliable sources, these statements correspond to reality; serious doubts however are expressed as to transportation facilities and the functioning of power plants. The Korean war and the damages inflicted on Yalu River installationshave lead to overtaxing of the available transport and electrical sources. This, in turn, has places Severe restrictions on all the other aspects of economic life, especially; on the expansion of heavy industry in the North-Eastern part of the country. The second aim set forth in Peiping's economic planning, = besides and above the restoration of pre-war production levels, - is the complete public control over all the pkases of China's economic lifes In cities and industrial centers, private capital, industry ani trade are being taken over by governmental trusts and companies. Private business was liquidated on the basis of the "five anti" campaign. Launch by Premier Chu-En=Lai early in January, this nation-wide movement had to detect and kill the five economic evils: namely fiscal fraude; bribery; deceit in work or production especially in case of public contracts; theft of economic secrets for profit-making purposes; alienating of Stat propertye Called off in June, this six-months honesty campaign had cleaned out most of the remaining private urban enterprises. The means used for enforcing that goal were the well-known communist practices: accusations and confessions, refunds of "stolen" goods or confiscations, Suicides, sentences to forced labor or executions. já in rural areas, especially in the ágricultural West, the “land reform is carried out speedilys With the exception of the most isolated areas s such as parts of the Sinkiang Province in the northwestern frontier region - the nationalization and redistribution of the land is completed, according to official statementse Landlords are liquidated. vmership is tummed over to State farms, State companies, peasants! associations and cooperatives. About 80% of the total population - rougl Ad,
