...leading industrial nations of the world. The objective is to build China in the shortest possible time into a great socialist country with modern industry,...modern agriculture, and modern science and culture ... To carry out our socialist construction at a high speed naturally requires constant readjustment...

...enterprises simultaneously; and 6. by means of all this to build our country, in the shortest possible time, into a great socialist country with modern industry,...modern agriculture, and modern science and culture" (RMRB, 27 May 1958). The "General Line", together with the "Great Leap Forward" and the "People's Commune",...

...is to protect all our people so that they can devote themselves to peaceful labour and make China a socialist country with modern industry, modern agriculture, and modern science and culture. Who is to exercise this dictatorship? Naturally, the working class and the entire people under its...