The Five Year Plan nationalized all industries. China followed the USSR's advice and copied their five-year plan. In exchange, China received a $300 million loan from the Soviet Union. More than 11,000 Soviet advisors worked in China in the 1950s to restore the economy. Jan Wong describes the relationship between China and the Soviet Union in Red China Blues: “For some reason the Chinese were the good guys of communism. The Russians were the bad guys. They had gulags and a menacing secret police called the KGB. The Chinese had pandas and an army in sneakers. Mao was cute, a cultural icon, like Marilyn Monroe.” Wong is commenting on how the USSR helped China because they made it seem like communism improved their economy. This domestic policy was economically successful because the urban population prospered and grew from 57 million to 100 million in 1957. All industries grew. Heavy industry recorded the greatest growth, while agricultural industry recorded the least. As a result, prices of goods fell, including wheat