needs” will be effected.

For volume of industrial
production the USSR occupies
first place in Europe and sec-
ond place in the world.

The scale of agricultural
production has increased con-
siderably and the labor pro-
ductivity of collective farmers
and workers in state farms
has grown on the basis of the
socialist reconstruction of
agriculture and its equipment
with modern _ machinery.
While the share of the popula-
tion engaged in agricultural
production is almost half of
that of the pre-revolutionary
period, gross and marketable
agricultural production has in-
creased seven-fold.

The development of the

basic branches of heavy /in-
dustry in the Soviet Union
during the next seven-year
period is characterized by
the following figures:
 @ In 1965 it is planned to
aT smelt 65 to 70 million tons of
- _— pig iron and 86 to 91 million
a} = tons of steel, and to produce
j 65 to 70 million tons of- rolled
stock. %
2 e The production of alumi-
num will increase approxi-
_ mately 2.8-fold, refined, copper
i 1.9-fold.

© There will be a signifi--
camt increase in the produc- .
tion of nickel, magnesium, ti-
tanium,' germanium,  silicum,

SOS

Le

; MOSCOW—The 21st Congress of the Communi
for the development of the national economy of the U
Soviet Union towards communism, when, on the basis o

The target figures are an integral and
USSR will occupy first place in the worl

:

decisive part of the
d not only for the total

CPSU HOLDS 21ST CONGRESS

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oviet pian figures 1959-
st Party of the Soviet Union will be held this month. The congress will consider the target figures

SSR for the period 1959-65. These figures reflect, as in a mirror, the constant movement of the
f an abundance of material and spiritual values, the principle, “from everyone according to his

long-term plan for the development of the USSR for the next 15 years during which the
volume of production but also for per capita industrial production. —

STEEL
OUTPUT

in million tons .
4 »

1913, 1928 1932 1940

1958

OIL
~ OUTPUT

2 In millon tons

——

Growth Con Sos
of Gross YY z
INDUSTRIAL Ss S\ AS
OUTPUT N SS s :
1913 «1 Ni SQV

1965 1913-1928

1932

1940 1958 1965

1913.

1928 1932 1940

1958 1965

period over 140 large chemi-
cal enterprises will be built
and over 130 will be recon-
structed.

@ In 1965 oil extraction Will
reach 230 to 240 million tons;
the extraction and production
of gas 196,000 million cubic
yards. Coal mining will be
brought up to some 600 mil-
lion tons.

The forthcoming seven-year
period is a decisive stage in
carrying out Lenin’s ideas on
the complete electrification of

and foodstuffs for national
consumption.

Capital investments in in-
dustry will increase approxi-
mately two-fold as compared

to the previous seven-year

_period.
The state is allocating some’

375,000 »million roubles for
housing and the development
of public utilities.

-State capital investments in
agriculture will amount to ap-

proximately 150,000 — million

roubles.

provement in the material and
cultural standards of the
Soviet population. The na-
tional income is to increase by
62 to 65 percent by the end
of the seven-year period, as
compared with 1958.

The real- incomes of the
workers and peasants will go
up by an average of 40 per-
of the monetary wages, pen-

gt
sions, grants and. to price re-

cent, due both to the growth

‘ductions. .

The real incomes of the col-

G

in comparable

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Mit
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1965

1918-1928

and also other non-ferrous : ; ;

3 metals and especially rare the Soviet land. My The constant improvement lective farmers will also go up
metals. The conditions have been of the people’s well-being is a by no less than 40 percent,
' @ The volume of output of, created in the USSR for a law of the development of mainly due to the growth of

chemical products will’ be still further increase in the Soviet society. The target fig- the commonly owned economy
tripled; during the seven-year output of | industrial goods ures enyisage a great im- of the collective farms.
NATIONAL HOUSING: i =
Ee Volume of ". » INCOME CONSTRUCTION © N
CAPITAL IN. In Soviet towns and :
_ VESTMENTS Industrial Communities §
STn National rare SANA average per year in N
Economy SSS N NN S88 NN million square metres &
in thousand SSE SS" RNS AN
| million rubles, S3SS8E_ SSS LS sy

YD

4,

1929-1940. 1958 1959-1965

January 23, 1959 —

The successful fulfilment of
five-year plans by the Soviet
Union has shown to the whole
world the advantages of the
socialist economic system over
the capitalist system and has
promoted a ehange on a world

’ scale in the correlation of the

forces of capitalism and soc-
ialism in the favor of social-
ism.

The fulfilment of the seven-
year plan will be a new, im-
portant stage in the powerful
economic competition of the
‘two systems.

As a result of the fulfil-
ment of the new plan the
USSR will produce more in-
dustrial production per capita
than is now produced by most
developed capitalist countries
of Europe.

For the absolute production .

of some of the most important,
items of output the USSR will —
surpass the modern level of
U.S. industrial production by
1965,° while for the other
items it will approach this
level. eS

The USSR’s superiority in
the rates of growth of produc-
tion provides a real basis for
catching up with and out-
stripping the per capita level
of U.S. production in approxi-
mately five years after 1965.

The Soviet Union will ad-
vance to first place in the

.world both for absolute vol-

ume of production and for per
capita production, which will
ensure it the world’s highest
living standards.

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