Mao and the Rise of the CCP

Rural and urban industrial developments in the Mao period laid the foundation for the capitalist boom in the 1980s. What I argue is that as many Chinese go-lode also final that what Mao pursue is a kind of a very extreme form of state led industrialization, use the state power to extract resources from the countryside. It is a very typical model of exporting the countryside to promote the growth of urban industrial sectors. Of course, that part of the deal is that they also try to equalize incomes and status within the countryside and within the city.