ABSTRACT
The Party Central Committee, headed by Chairman Mao, while pushing ahead the socialist transformation of agriculture, put into effect the unified purchasing and marketing of food grains, cotton, and oil. The consolidation and development of the collective economy in turn laid down a reliable basis for the consolidation and expansion of the socialist planned market. Liu Shao-ch'i's design to develop capitalism in the rural areas was aimed at the occupation of the rural market by capitalism. In the temporary difficult periods of the national economy, he once again fanned up the black wind of greatly developing the capitalist free market in a vain attempt to prepare conditions for the sabotage of the collective economy of the people's communes and the restoration of capitalism. Liu Shao-ch'i's so-called "free trade" and "free markets" are purely and simply slogans representing the interests of the bourgeoisie and the rich peasants.
