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Mass Mobilization Was Nation Building
- China used Maoist mass mobilization to stitch a fractured country together by sending cadres into the countryside to both teach and learn.
- Jiao Yulu exemplified this pragmatic local cadre who implemented soil-saving polonia tree projects after listening to villagers' knowledge.
Jiao Yulu's Polonia Tree Solution
- Jiao Yulu rose from an undistinguished party official to a celebrated model by touring his county and implementing locally informed anti-erosion measures.
- He planted polonia trees based on farmers' reports to halt desertification and became a pragmatic hero in the 1960s.
Deng Repurposed Maoist Decentralization
- Deng repurposed Maoist 'two initiatives' doctrine to justify market decentralization and economic experimentation in the 1980s.
- He wrote the two initiatives into the 1982 constitution to empower local experimentation while keeping party continuity.