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Outline the effects of the communist party on Chinese national development The People's Republic of China came into being on October the first 1949. Since that time the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the country's ruling party, has attempted to bring about social reconstruction and economic growth by employing different variants of 'socialist' policy. A number of periods may be identified, each characterised by particular policy directions and emphases. The principal aspects and implications of each of these will be discussed, beginning with the Rehabilitation period of 1949-52. In 1949 the Chinese communists inherited a country which was backward, poor and underdeveloped due to continuing Imperial patterns of class structure, as well as having been ravaged by two civil wars and a Japanese invasion since the 1920s (Cannon and Jenkins 1990). Before the communist development envisaged by Mao Zedong's revolutionary government could begin, it was necessary to establish administrative...

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