- Unite China under a single government and maintain control
- Gain support from the USSR (1950 Treaty of Mutual Aid and Assistance)
- Rebuild China (improve conditions in order to maintain support of the peasants/common people)
- Improve industry/industrialize China
- Improve agriculture
- Maintain power
Mao's Methods
- 1950 Marriage Law- no arranged/child marriages, no killing of female babies, joint ownership of property, maternity benefits (full wages for two months after the birth of a child)
- Agrarian Reform Law- redistribution of land, people were classified as landlords, rich peasants, middle peasants, or poor peasants, took land from the wealthy and gave it to the poor, "speak bitterness" meetings (peasants speak against landlords, 2-4 million landlords were killed)
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