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  2. Great Leap Forward - Wikipedia

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    The agricultural policies of the Great Leap Forward and the associated famine continued until January 1961, when, at the Ninth Plenum of the 8th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the restoration of agricultural production through a reversal of the Great Leap policies was started. Grain exports were stopped, and imports from ...

  3. Great Chinese Famine - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. History of the People's Republic of China (1949–1976)

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    The Mao era focuses on Mao Zedong's social movements from the early 1950s on, including land reform, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. [4] [5] The Great Chinese Famine, one of the worst famines in human history, [6] [7] [8] occurred during this era.

  5. Cultural Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The Great Leap Forward, similar to the Five-year plans of the Soviet Union, was Mao Zedong's proposal to make the newly created People's Republic of China an industrial superpower. Beginning in 1958, the Great Leap Forward did produce, at least on the surface, incredible industrialization, but also caused the Great Chinese Famine , while still ...

  6. List of campaigns of the Chinese Communist Party - Wikipedia

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    Although intended to increase China's economic output, the Great Leap Forward was instead a period of economic regression. The policies enacted during the campaign, coupled with the use of coercion and violence, resulted in the Great Chinese Famine and led to the deaths of 36 - 45 million. 36 to 45 million [12] 1958–1962: Four Pests Campaign

  7. Mao Zedong - Wikipedia

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    In 1958, Mao launched the Great Leap Forward, which aimed to transform China's economy from agrarian to industrial; it resulted in the Great Chinese Famine. In 1966, he initiated the Cultural Revolution , a campaign to remove "counter-revolutionary" elements marked by violent class struggle , destruction of historical artifacts, and Mao's cult ...

  8. 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.

  9. Economic history of China (1949–present) - Wikipedia

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    The period of the Great Leap Forward famine negatively impacted the economy. The chaos of the Cultural Revolution also disrupted the economy, although the construction of the Third Front increased China's industrial development and infrastructure in its interior regions. Since the period of economic reform began in 1978, China has seen major ...