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  2. Great Leap Forward - Wikipedia

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    If an estimate of 30 million deaths is accepted, the failure of the Great Leap Forward caused the deadliest famine in the history of China, and it also caused the deadliest famine in human history. [72] [73] This extremely high loss of human lives was partially caused by China's large population.

  3. 1975 Banqiao Dam failure - Wikipedia

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    [11] [12] Some experts have also stated that the focus on peasant steel production during the Great Leap Forward, as well as a number of policies from the campaign to "Learn from Dazhai in agriculture", severely damaged the ecosystem and forest cover in the region, which was a major cause of the flood, and the government's mishandling of the ...

  4. Great Chinese Famine - Wikipedia

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    Half of the country. Death rate were highest in Anhui (18% dead), Chongqing (15%), Sichuan (13%), Guizhou (11%) and Hunan (8%). [1] Period: 1959–1961: Total deaths: 15–55 million: Theory: Result of the Great Leap Forward, people's commune, Four Pests campaign and other factors. Consequences: Termination of the Great Leap Forward campaign

  5. Five-year plans of China - Wikipedia

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    The Third Plan was originally due early in 1963, but at that time China's economy was too dislocated, as a result of the failure of the Great Leap Forward and four poor harvests to permit any planned operations. [10] No five-year plan ultimately covered the period 1963–1965. [11]: 201

  6. What history can teach us about A.I.’s Great Leap Forward - AOL

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    Everything is possible for A.I. because so little has happened. And like China's potential in the 1950s, the possibility for growth appears unbounded.

  7. Four Pests campaign - Wikipedia

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    The failure of food production during the Great Leap Forward was due to newly mandated agricultural practices imposed by the state. The mismanagement in agriculture can be attributed to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In December 1958, Mao Zedong formulated the "Eight Elements Constitution". Purported to be scientifically sound, the eight ...

  8. Second five-year plan (China) - Wikipedia

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    Anshan Iron and Steel Structure Metal Processing Plant in 1952. The 2nd Five-Year Plan was the second five-year plan adopted by the People's Republic of China. It was planned to last from 1958 to 1962, and was more modest than the first Five-Year Plan, but was de facto abandoned since the beginning of the Great Leap Forward.

  9. Chinese economic reform - Wikipedia

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    From 1950 to 1973, Chinese real GDP per capita grew at a rate of 2.9% per year on average, albeit with major fluctuations. [19] This placed it near the middle of the Asian nations during the same period, [ 20 ] with neighboring countries such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore and then rival Chiang Kai-shek 's Republic of China (ROC) outstripping ...