Attempted to modernize China's economy.

Steel and crops (in general)

Furnances were kept in the backyard of the communes and were used to produce steel.

The people working in the communes were able to produce crops for the government to sell out as food to earn a lot of money for the country.

People had no identity because everything they owned was taken when they joined a commune.

To be competitive to the West and he needed to rapidly indutrialize China.

Farmers started to lie about the amount of crops they produced in order to "meet" expectations and quotas.

They use up a lot of coal which makes it not very energy saving.

Many were injured because of the long working hours and sleeping on the job.

Controlling labor force and labor discontent grew as more people joined communes.

Improve effieciency and quantity of work load, for easier government control and also to increase the amount of people working.

People started to take out sparrows in order to save crops thinking them pests, however, the bugs that remained were the real problem and the crops ended up dying anyways.

The communes started off with just a few farming Families together but then grew into a giant system with everyone having their own jobs and being responsible for it. Working side by side to help each other.

Famine is major food-shortage and it affects the economy by starvation and people cannot work therefore stopping production of goods.

It unified the masses and there was a guaranteed income and education.

Following the political and economic beliefs of Karl Marx, he created communes to to improve efficiency.

Food production was low and crops were neglected or people just didn't know how to take care of it. There was also drought and famine.

Unskilled people were making steel so the steel was low quality and it had no use.

US trade embargo on China (1949 to 1963)
Internal conflicts.

Parents could leave their child behind to go to work.

The industry could only grow if everyone in the work force is well fed. so agriculture was needed. Industry was important to modernize china.

Food production was already low because of things like sparrow shooting and neglected crops and then farmers were now making steel and not farming. So food gradually became not enough.

Farmers started to use backyard plants in order to meet the amount of resources the community needed.

To speed up industrialization and organize agriculture under the collective control of the communist government. To gain more government control, and to produce more food for the people.

Where one must do what is best and good for the commune, not for himself. If he does that, he does what is good for the nation and the nation will be pure and successful.