Great Leap Forward - Wikipedia
The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social campaign within the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 1958 to 1962, led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Party Chairman Mao Zedong launched the campaign to reconstruct the country from an agrarian economy into an industrialized society through the formation of people's communes.
Great Leap Forward | Definition, Facts, & Significance | Britannica
2024年10月22日 · Great Leap Forward, in Chinese history, the campaign undertaken by the Chinese communists between 1958 and early 1960 to organize its vast population, especially in large-scale rural communes, to meet China’s industrial and agricultural problems.
What Was the Great Leap Forward? - ThoughtCo
2019年9月3日 · The Great Leap Forward was a push by Mao Zedong to change China from a predominantly agrarian (farming) society to a modern, industrial society—in just five years. It was an impossible goal, of course, but Mao had the power to force the world's largest society to try.
Great Leap Forward: What It Was, Goals, and Impact - Investopedia
2024年7月25日 · In 1958, Mao announced his plan for the Great Leap Forward, which he laid out as a five-year plan to improve the economic prosperity of the People’s Republic of China. He devised the plan...
Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions - TheCollector
2024年2月16日 · From the introduction of rudimentary backyard furnaces to unproven, experimental agricultural techniques being implemented nationwide, the Great Leap Forward was a period of appalling decision-making that marked Mao’s transition into dictatorship.
The Great Leap Forward - Alpha History
2018年3月18日 · The Great Leap Forward was the name given to China’s Second Five Year Plan (1958-62). This ambitious economic program was driven by Mao Zedong’s impatience for industrial and manufacturing growth (in his words, “more, faster, better, cheaper”).
Great Leap Forward - New World Encyclopedia
Mao unveiled the Great Leap Forward at a meeting in January 1958 in Nanning. The central idea behind the Great Leap was that rapid development of China's agricultural and industrial sectors should take place in parallel.
Introduction: The Great Leap Forward (1958-1960) | Mao’s …
During 1957 and 1958 Mao Zedong was seized by a vision that economic development in China could proceed rapidly in leaps and bounds by relying on improvisation and mass spontaneity, rather than moderately by the planned and gradual way pursued during the …
BBC - History - Mao Zedong
Read a biography about the life of Mao Zedong the Chinese communist leader responsible for the disastrous policies including the 'Great Leap Forward' and the 'Cultural Revolution'.
China’s Cultural Revolution, Explained - The New York Times
2016年5月14日 · Fifty years ago, Mao Zedong unleashed the Cultural Revolution, a decade-long upheaval that had dramatic, often violent effects across China. Here is an overview of those tumultuous years: What...