After the completion of the First Five-Year Plan China's industrial output value exceeded the agricultural output value

After the completion of the First Five-Year Plan, China's industrial output did exceed its agricultural output.

The First Five-Year Plan, or the First Five-Year Plan, was an economic development plan formulated at the beginning of the country's founding. The main objective of the plan was to concentrate on industrialization and lay the initial foundation for socialist industrialization. During the implementation of the First Five-Year Plan, China vigorously developed heavy industry, especially basic industries such as iron and steel, machinery and electric power, while strengthening the development of light industry and agriculture to support the process of industrialization.

After five years of efforts, the First Five-Year Plan made remarkable achievements. The industrial output value grew rapidly, and the development of heavy industry in particular was astonishing. Meanwhile, agricultural output, though also growing, was slow compared to the growth rate of industrial output. As a result, after the completion of the First Five-Year Plan, China's industrial output exceeded its agricultural output for the first time, becoming the dominant force in the national economy.

This transformation had far-reaching significance. It not only improved China's industrial level and production capacity, laying a solid foundation for subsequent economic development, but also changed China's economic structure, transforming the country from a traditional agricultural country to an incipient industrial country. In addition, this transformation has also promoted the progress and modernization of our society, laying an important foundation for the prosperity and strength of the country.

In summary:

After the completion of the First Five-Year Plan, China's industrial output value exceeded its agricultural output value, realizing the historic leap from an agricultural country to an industrial country. This transformation not only improved China's industrial level and production capacity, but also changed the country's economic structure and social outlook, laying a solid foundation for the country's long-term development.

Legal basis:

The Outline of the First Five-Year Plan for the National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China

Article 1:

According to the requirements of the Party's general line during the transitional period, the basic task of the First Five-Year Plan is to concentrate on the main efforts to carry out the construction of the 156 construction units that the USSR had helped to design for China and that consisted of a limit of 694 construction units above the quota, to establish the initial basis for socialist industrialization in China; to develop some collectively owned agricultural production cooperatives and handicraft production cooperatives, to establish the initial basis for the socialist transformation of agriculture and handicrafts; to basically complete the further socialist transformation of capitalist industry and commerce and of the bourgeoisie; and, in the area of transportation, postal and telegraphy, to build correspondingly some railroads and highways, expanding inland navigation, increasing the construction of coastal ports, and establishing postal and telegraphic facilities in important cities and industrial and mining districts to serve industrial production and people's life; basically completing the land reform; adopting the state-capitalist form of further socialist transformation of the capitalist industry and commerce and the bourgeoisie; establishing workers' supervision in the private sector; and beginning to carry out further bourgeois socialist transformation.