f state of the People's Republic of China in 1949. His journey's throughout China's interior campaigning for the "communist cause" led to his limitless faith in the revolutionary potential of the peasantry population. China's interior, although largely undeveloped, harbored most of China's immense population. Still today, China's interior is largely undeveloped in comparison to its coastal city counterparts. Also known as the "poverty belt, stretching from Yunnan in the south to Xinjiang in the north makes up more than half of China's land mass and is home to 285 million people - a popula!
             tion bigger than that of the U.S. residents." (Business Week, May 15th, 2000) Mao began advocating that revolutions in China focus on them and not on the urban masses. Without waiting for authorization from the communist party, Mao began establishing peasant-based, communist-run local governments. Although the communist party rejected and opposed Mao's newly implemented strategy, Mao's support and control of the Chinese communist movement incre
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