Great Leap Forward
Chinese history
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What was the Great Leap Forward?
What was the Great Leap Forward?
What methods were used during the Great Leap Forward?
What methods were used during the Great Leap Forward?
What were the consequences of the Great Leap Forward?
What were the consequences of the Great Leap Forward?
How did the Chinese government respond to the failure of the Great Leap Forward?
How did the Chinese government respond to the failure of the Great Leap Forward?
Great Leap Forward, in Chinese history, the campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party between 1958 and early 1960 to organize China’s vast population, especially in large-scale rural communes, to meet the country’s industrial and agricultural problems. The Chinese hoped to develop labor-intensive methods of industrialization, which would emphasize manpower rather than machines and capital expenditure. Thereby, it was hoped, the country could bypass the slow, more typical process of industrialization through gradual accumulation of capital and purchase of heavy machinery. The Great Leap Forward approach was epitomized by the development of small backyard steel furnaces in every village and ...(100 of 855 words)