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Overall, the Great Leap Forward failed to rapidly industrialize China as intended. [153] According to Joseph Ball, writing in the Monthly Review, there is a good argument to suggest that the policies of the Great Leap Forward did a lot to sustain China's overall economic growth, after an initial period of disruption. [154]
The resulting agricultural failures, compounded by misguided policies of the Great Leap Forward, triggered a severe famine from 1958 to 1962. The death toll from starvation during this period reached 20 to 30 million people, [ 17 ] underscoring the high human cost of the ecological mismanagement inherent in the "Four Pests" campaign.
The major contributing factors in the famine were the policies of the Great Leap Forward (1958 to 1962) and people's communes, launched by Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong, such as inefficient distribution of food within the nation's planned economy; requiring the use of poor agricultural techniques; the Four Pests campaign ...
The Great Leap Forward campaign's aim was to increase agriculture, industrial productions, social change and ideological change. The Great Leap's goal of developing China's material productive forces was inextricably intertwined [5] with the pursuit of communist social goals and the development of a popular communist consciousness. This failed ...
The conference corrected some of the far-left economic policies. Economic reforms such as sanzi yibao (三自一包) which allowed free market and household responsibility for agricultural production were carried out by Liu Shaoqi, Deng Zihui and others. [11] [12] The reforms alleviated the economic difficulties after the Great Leap Forward to ...
The Great Leap Forward's focus on total workforce mobilization resulted in opportunities for women's labor advancement. [11]: 104–105 As women became increasingly needed to work in agriculture and industry, and encouraged by policy to do so, the concept of Iron Women arose.
Several critics pointed out the strong argument that Becker made against Mao's government and policies, especially the Great Leap Forward. [15] [21] [25] [26] A reviewer for The Economist wrote that Becker "passionately but precisely, Mr. Becker records the tragic results of one of the boldest example of Utopian engineering ever attempted". [16]
The policies of the Second Plan's Great Leap Forward departed from the approach in the Soviet-inspired First Plan, which stressed central command and extensive planning. [7]: 40 Instead, the approach entailed local areas marshalling all available resources for large projects.