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The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social campaign within China from 1958 to 1962, led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Party Chairman Mao Zedong launched the campaign to transform the country from an agrarian society into an industrialized society through the formation of people's communes.
The article stressed the importance of uniting theory and practice, denounced the dogmatic euphoria of the Mao era, and was, in fact, an outright criticism on Hua's Two Whatevers policy. This article was reprinted in many newspapers across the country, and echoed widespread support amongst party organs and the general populace.
The Great Leap Forward took the goal of reviving pre-1949 success when the Party was base in Yan'an, when local Party cadre and local units took the initiative. But the failure of the Leap swung the Party back to allowing managers more control and central planners more authority. Chapters then treat "Control", "Cities", and "Villages".
After the Great Leap Forward, China's leadership slowed the pace of industrialization. [ 210 ] : 3 It invested more on in China's coastal regions and focused on the production of consumer goods. [ 210 ] : 3 Preliminary drafts of the Third Five Year Plan contained no provision for developing large scale industry in China's interior.
Leading into the Great Leap Forward, China experienced a population boom that strained its food supply, despite rising agricultural yields. [28]: 81 Increased yields could not keep pace a population that benefitted from a major decrease in mortality (due to successful public health campaigns and the end of war) and high fertility rate.
The Great Leap Forward stemmed from multiple factors, including "the purge of intellectuals, the surge of less-educated radicals, the need to find new ways to generate domestic capital, rising enthusiasm about the potential results mass mobilization might produce, and reaction against the sociopolitical results of the Soviet's development ...
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.
Both of these sociocultural movements can be seen as shaping Maoist theory on the need for and goals of Cultural Revolution, and subsequently the mass cultural movements enacted by the CCP under Mao, which include the Great Leap Forward, the Anti-rightist movement of the 1950s, and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of the 1960s-1970s. [39]