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China's mass movement to eradicate snails was taken as a model by the United Nations Health Organization, which had just been established at that time, but the biggest role of the mass health campaign is to change the health habits of the people, but if education does not keep up, the current achievements are only a flash in the pan after all, so in the final analysis, it is still necessary to strive to improve the cultural quality of the masses and strengthen popular science education, the central government also attaches great importance to this aspect, but if you want to achieve results, it takes more time.

When it comes to education, the achievements made in the early years of the People's Republic of China can be described as earth-shattering, especially in the areas of basic education and the literacy campaign. At least 20 million more literate people than at the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China in history, so that in just a few years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the five-year compulsory education system was basically realized, and in 1943, the average enrollment rate of primary schools in the country exceeded 90% for the first time, which also included the Indochina Peninsula, where compulsory education was implemented a little later.

Even in border ethnic minority areas such as Xinjiang and Tibet, the primary school enrolment rate has reached the national average, thanks to the high level of education of immigrants and a series of coercive measures taken by Hu Weidong under tremendous pressure. Naturally, the extreme measure of arresting parents without allowing them to go to school is not feasible, but the detrimental tactics of sending troops to persuade them from door to door and not thinking about a normal life if they do not let their children go to school have not been used less.

Although there were also minority incidents, they did not affect the overall situation. Objectively, it has played the role of "striking the grass and startling the snake", allowing those potentially dangerous elements to jump out on their own, or forcing them to flee from the country (Note 1), which is actually conducive to the long-term peace and stability of the frontier in the long run

Thanks to the experience of literacy in the army, after the new China vigorously launched the literacy campaign, most middle-aged people have learned some Chinese characters to a greater or lesser extent in just a few years, which has greatly facilitated their life and work. For those illiterate in their twenties, it is far more acceptable to attend literacy classes than to enter primary school at this age. The benefits are much greater than those of middle-aged people. Because they are still at an age where they are easily receptive to new knowledge and ideas. However, the quality of literacy classes run by local governments is still not as good as that of schools and the military, and for a long time, going to school and joining the army are still the best way for rural children to change their future destiny

Although the results of basic education have been very encouraging. However, the leading cadres of the education front and even the central authorities were not satisfied. In two five-year periods, we will ensure that the average enrollment rate of junior high schools in the country exceeds 90 per cent, and the graduation rate exceeds 70 per cent. It has become a hard indicator that must be completed, and Taizu even said that even if China enters the war in the future. This goal must also be achieved without compromise.

Although the foundation of the establishment of New China in this time and space is much better than in history, but the development of basic education is so fast, it is inevitable to sacrifice higher education, Hu Weidong, who deeply feels the shortage of front-line talents in scientific research, has some complaints about this, but he knows that Taizu is very obsessed with the word "fairness", after all, he did not dare to argue with it for this, anyway, higher education will develop sooner or later, and with universal basic education as the foundation, higher education will also get more students. Although the speed of technological development may be affected in the short term, in the long run, it is necessary to have deep roots and flourish, so it is not necessarily a bad thing

For these reasons, China's mortality rate continued to decline at an incredible rate, and in 1943 China's average life expectancy exceeded the 60-year-old mark, which was close to the pre-war level of the Western powers. Moreover, Hu Weidong knows that China's antibiotics have reached the level of the 70s in history, whether in terms of type, efficacy or output, and the level of medical and health care is also continuing to improve, and it is not impossible to reach or even exceed the level of the West in the same period in the next five years.

In fact, in 1950, China's average life expectancy reached 69 years, which was even 1 year higher than the only superpower on Shijie at that time, the United States, and this was when the per capita income of Chinese was less than 5% of the United States (in fact, the gap is not so large, because prices in China are lower, but even according to the purchasing power parity method, it is still less than one-tenth of the United States, because prices in the United States were also quite cheap at that time). At one time, it was considered a manifestation of the superiority of socialism.

However, as chronic diseases became the main cause of death, China's medical level, especially the level of surgery, was still significantly lower than that of the old empire, and the United States was forced to improve and continuously improve social welfare under the pressure of huge competition, so that the average life expectancy soon surpassed China again, and once widened the gap to 3 years, until after 1970, it was surpassed by China again, and this "life race" became a positive significance between the two camps during the Cold War together with the "space race" and "welfare race" The three head-to-head competitions" have been talked about by future generations, of course, these are all later words

With the mortality rate falling below 1 per cent and the birth rate exceeding 5 per cent, it is strange that the population is not growing rapidly. If it had not been for the central government's insistence on the policy of "preparing for war and preparing for famine" before 1942, the great drought of 1942 would have probably caused serious consequences, and even if a bumper national harvest was achieved in 1943, it would still be quite dangerous for the population to continue to swell according to this trend.

It is necessary to know that with the basic completion of farmland water conservancy construction and the continuous increase in the output of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, the two most likely to see the results of the two major factors to increase the grain output has been increasingly reduced, in the agricultural development through the "from scratch" stage into a stable period, even if the production conditions and agricultural jishu can still continue to improve, it is simply impossible to maintain more than 4% of the grain output growth year after year, although at least 10 years do not have to worry about starving to death, However, the people who have already eaten enough before must save some food when the economy continues to develop at a rapid pace, and this kind of thing can easily lead to a serious political crisis.

Note 1: In this time and space, no less than 100,000 Chinese people went to the Soviet Union during World War II, and after the war, due to the insufficient population of the Soviet Union, preferential policies were issued to vigorously introduce immigrants, and millions of people ran away in the first ten years, and because the Soviet government believed that the Han and other East Asian ethnic groups were difficult to assimilate and adopted discriminatory policies, the permanent immigrants were basically other ethnic groups. (To be continued......)