The eight-character policy is mainly to adjust the proportional relationship between agriculture, light industry and heavy industry, improve the development speed of agriculture and light industry as much as possible, appropriately control the development speed of heavy industry, especially iron and steel industry, and reduce the scale of capital construction at the same time, so as to make overall arrangements for national construction and people's lives.
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1in July, 960, the Beidaihe meeting in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed to adjust the national economy. When studying 196 1 national economic plan, Comrade Li Fuchun proposed that "adjustment, consolidation and improvement" should be the basic spirit.
Under the specific guidance of the eight-character policy of "adjustment, consolidation, enrichment and improvement" put forward during the period of building socialism in an all-round way, the economy has gradually recovered and developed from 1962.
From 65438 to 0965, the task of national economic adjustment was basically completed; From 65438 to 0966, the national economy basically completed the scheduled task of national economic adjustment, and restored and developed the national economy of China.