It is rare for a signed article by a member of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee to appear on the top page of the Liberation Daily on the National Day of the Republic.
October 1, 1953 Liberation Daily, 1st edition
Celebrate the fourth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China
Chinese people began the struggle for the industrialization of the country
Zhang Wentian, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
It has been four years since the founding of the People's Republic of China. In the course of these four years, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese people waged a resolute struggle against enemies at home and abroad and consolidated the country's independence and unity; completed a series of democratic reforms, which gave the people's democratic dictatorship a solid foundation; and made diligent efforts on the production front to restore the economy destroyed in the protracted war. From this year onwards we began planned economic construction, the aim of which is to gradually industrialize the country and gradually transition to socialism.
As soon as the People's Republic of China was founded, the Communist Party of China concentrated its efforts on land reform and various other democratic reforms in order to create the necessary conditions for the beginning of planned economic construction in our country, the gradual industrialization of the country and the gradual transition to socialism. The great war to resist US aggression and aid Korea, which began in the winter of 1950, repelled not only the us imperialist attack on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, but also its direct threat to the People's Republic of China.
By 1952, the output of major industrial and agricultural products had exceeded the highest annual output in China's history.
After creating the necessary conditions in the political, economic and other fields, our country began its first five-year construction plan from this year.
The Communist Party of China, taking into account the complex conditions for industrialization and socialist transformation in a country as vast and backward as China, has decided to adopt the basic policy of steady progress, while at the same time estimating the various favorable conditions at home and abroad, first and foremost the consciousness of the people and the assistance of the Soviet Union, and having full confidence in overcoming any difficulties on the way forward.
When the first year of China's first five-year construction plan is coming to an end, the people of the whole country are exerting a high degree of enthusiasm and enthusiasm, launching a patriotic campaign to increase production and strictly practice economy, and striving to complete and exceed the state plan. The working people of China understand that the completion of the annual plan for 1953 means a step forward towards the prosperity and strength of the country and to its own happiness, an increase in the proportion of the socialist component of the national economy, and a new blow to the imperialist aggressors.
Before this National Day, in late July, the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed at Panmunjom.
Earlier, in May, the Chinese and Soviet governments signed the Agreement on the Assistance of the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China in the Development of the Chinese National Economy.
A few earlier days, at the beginning of the year, on January 1, 1953, our country began to implement the first five-year plan for the development of the national economy.
These are the moods of this National Day.
Eyes and minds are focused on "construction" - as the text says, "one step forward to the prosperity of the country and one's own happiness", one step, one step another...
Previously, in 1951, Zhang Wentian succeeded Wang Jiaxiang as the second ambassador of New China to the Soviet Union. On August 30, 2020, the day of the 120th anniversary of Zhang Wentian's birth, the Institute of Party History and Literature of the Communist Party of China published a signed article entitled "Dedication and Wisdom, Persistent Exploration -- Commemorating the 120th Anniversary of Comrade Zhang Wentian's Birth", which highly praised "his lifelong exploration of truth, open-mindedness, for the cause of China's revolution and socialist construction, to achieve the communist ideal, perseverance, selfless struggle."
In particular, the article pointed out that Zhang Wentian was the main person in charge of the specific implementation of the "156 projects" in the Soviet Union.
"He attaches great importance to the active development of Sino-Soviet economic and trade and scientific and technological cooperation, serves the domestic economic construction, participates in the relevant negotiations with the Soviet side as an ambassador, and is the main person in charge of the specific implementation of the '156 Projects' in the Soviet Union." On the basis of studying the experience of industrialization in the Soviet Union, he proposed that China's industrialization should be "steadily advanced", and put forward specific suggestions on the layout of China's steel industry, self-reliance and the combination of foreign aid. ”
The so-called "156 projects" refers to the stipulations of the "Soviet Aid Economic Agreement" signed between China and the Soviet Union in May this year, and the Soviet Union assisted China in the construction and reconstruction of 91 industrial projects, plus 50 projects that had been identified in 1950 and 15 projects added in 1954, a total of 156 projects, which were included in the "First Five-Year Plan". (150 actual construction projects after that)
From this year on, 15, 25, 35, 45, 55, 65... Until this year's 14th Five-Year Plan: In March 2021, the 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China and the Outline of Long-term Goals for 2035 were announced.
This is the first five years of China's march toward the second centenary goal after building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and achieving the first centenary goal.
"A blueprint is drawn to the end", the relay of the Chinese Communists from generation to generation, from the past, to the present, and the future, is writing a magnificent scene in world history.
Tomorrow, please see the centennial version of the 211954 and the first draft constitution of the Republic was announced: That morning, "a rainbow like fish scales appeared over the Pujiang River."
Column Editor-in-Chief: Chen Shuyi Text Editor: Guo Quanzhen
Source: Author: Guo Quanzhen
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