Chinese Anti Campaign Essay

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Mao Zedong issued three-anti campaign in 1951 and five–anti campaign in 1952, a few years after founding the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in order to get rid of corruption in the cities. The three anti campaigns were launched in Manchuria and the antis’ were against corruption, waste and bureaucracy. The five antis were against pilfering state financial information and assets, government contracts, avoidance of taxes, and bribery. Most of the culprits of the antis were many a time terrified, humiliated and at times they were killed. These campaigns tackled state, global, political, moral and social issues and were intended to strengthen the China Communist Party and get rid of various kinds of enemies also deepening the understanding of the new principles that guided the state as well as promote economic growth. These campaigns included persuade the outreach of land reforms policies in 1950, and to broadcast new rules and regulations such as rectification of intellectuals’ movements; campaigns to eradicate corruption, bureaucracies and petty crime in cities. This kind of mobilization assisted in the reconstruction of the country. The land reforms eliminated landlord class ownership of land and introduced peasant landownership. Each peasant had a deed for the first time. And with this the introduction of agriculture led …show more content…

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