Which of the following statements concerning Chinese domestic policies during the 1950s and 1960s is most accurate?
a. Despite pledges made during the civil war, the Communist Party failed to undertake substantial land redistribution programs.
b. Increasingly Mao came to embrace the old Confucian concept of a bureaucratic elite as the means of government.
c. The Chinese Communist leadership began a massive attempt to reeducate the peasantry and create an industrialized class.
d. With the introduction of the first five-year plan in 1953, the Communist leadership turned away from the peasantry.
e. Mao's primary trust came to rest in a group of intellectuals associated with the University of Beijing.
Answer: D