Book contents
- Making Mao’s Steelworks
- Cambridge Studies in the History of the People’s Republic of China
- Making Mao’s Steelworks
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Empire, War, and the Global Crisis of Capitalism, 1915–1948
- Part II Socialist Industrialization as a Hybrid System, 1948–1957
- 3 Making Manchuria Red
- 4 The Soviet Big Brother Is Watching You
- 5 Who Owns the State-Owned Enterprise?
- 6 Speaking Maoist
- Part III Socialisms with Chinese Characteristics, 1957–2000
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix A Note on Primary Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - The Soviet Big Brother Is Watching You
from Part II - Socialist Industrialization as a Hybrid System, 1948–1957
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 December 2024
- Making Mao’s Steelworks
- Cambridge Studies in the History of the People’s Republic of China
- Making Mao’s Steelworks
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Empire, War, and the Global Crisis of Capitalism, 1915–1948
- Part II Socialist Industrialization as a Hybrid System, 1948–1957
- 3 Making Manchuria Red
- 4 The Soviet Big Brother Is Watching You
- 5 Who Owns the State-Owned Enterprise?
- 6 Speaking Maoist
- Part III Socialisms with Chinese Characteristics, 1957–2000
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix A Note on Primary Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores Sino–Soviet cooperation in the early to mid-1950s. The People’s Republic of China’s First Five-Year Plan sought to develop heavy industry by importing advanced technology from the Soviet Union. One-third of the Sino–Soviet collaboration projects were based in Manchuria, utilizing the physical infrastructure inherited from the pre–Chinese Communist Party era. Soviet experts in China and Chinese students and trainees in the Soviet Union played key roles in transferring Soviet technology. By learning from Soviet knowledge and skills and adapting them to suit Chinese conditions, Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) such as Angang gradually reduced their technological dependence on the Soviet Union while supporting other SOEs across China.
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- Making Mao's SteelworksIndustrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism, pp. 130 - 162Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024