The Great Leap Forward, 1956
-Mao's new economic plan after five year plans critisized
-China organized into 28,000 communes
-Main factors:
-Great industrial and scientific activity
-Muscle power used to build dams and irrigation
-Small communal factories
-Famine a huge problem (30,000,000 deaths)
-China organized into 28,000 communes
-Main factors:
-Great industrial and scientific activity
-Muscle power used to build dams and irrigation
-Small communal factories
-Famine a huge problem (30,000,000 deaths)
"If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience."
-Mao Zedong
-Mao Zedong
summary
The Great Leap Forward took place in 1958. The Great Leap Forward was Mao’s attempt to modernize China’s economy so that by 1988, China would have an economy that rivaled America.