In 1953, with the start of the first Five Year Plan, the focus on a heavy-industry oriented development strategy began. ... China's Characteristics China's economic development started at a low level. ... In 1959, at the beginning of the Chinese Great Famine, a massive miscalculation in agricultural planning occurred, due to the combination of mismanagement of agriculture brought on by the commune system, and the acceptance of the inflated agricultural output figures. ... It was therefore illogical to remove the majority of capital away from what was China's main source of i...

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In his Hind Swaraj, Gandhi points out that the British were able to further establish their presence in India as they would buy raw materials such as cotton from India, use cheap machine intensive production methods to produce goods which would then be brought back to India and sold for prices cheaper than locally produced Indian goods, thereby ruining the Indian indigenous industry and draining India's wealth.17 This belief and opposition to British exploitation lead to the influential Gandhi starting the Khadi movement, which aimed to make India self-sufficient. ... He pointed out the ...

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