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Describe China's economy and society in the late 1940's and early 1950's Throughout the 1940's China faced many economic and social problems. Chinese society had developed very little since the nineteenth and had been hit badly by the warfare of the twentieth century. Additionally, the ongoing war with Japan initiated by Japanese troops in Beijing as part of a carefully prepared plan wherein Japan would invade China in an attempt to fuel their hunger for land and steadily increase their own empire. Naturally, the Guomindang and the Communist parties remained in their own designated areas from where they had previously suppressed the Civil War between them.This caused much disunity among the people and quality of life in the countryside areas of China deteriorated rapidly. During this time Chinese industry was very weak. There was very little in the way of large scale production facilities and all agricultural activities relied on manual labour...

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