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The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social campaign within China from 1958 to 1962, ... Henan, during the Great Leap Forward collapsed in 1975 ...
The Spirit Soldier rebellion of 1959 was an anti-Communist peasant uprising at Sizhuang County, Henan.One of several rebellions which occurred in Henan due to the catastrophic Great Leap Forward implemented by the Chinese government, it lasted for twenty days in February 1959 and was one of the largest rural rebellions in China during the 1950s.
The backyard furnaces used to produce steel in Xinyang, Henan during the Great Leap Forward. After the Great Leap Forward was launched by Mao Zedong, over 100 dams were built in the Zhumadian region from 1957 to 1959. [8] [15] Tan Zhenlin, then Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China, issued the guidelines on reservoir construction ...
As the Great Leap Forward got underway, the state consolidated HAPCs into about 26,000 communes, each containing on average 4,500 hectares of land, 24,000 people, and 5,200 households. [11] The sizes of different communes varied widely across different regions but they were consistently much larger than HAPCs had been, and the communes ...
In 1958, Yashan in Suiping County, Henan, became the first people's commune of China, heralding the beginning of the "Great Leap Forward". [35] In the subsequent famines of the early 1960s popularly attributed to the Great Leap Forward, Henan was one of the hardest hit and millions of people died.
The overall result of the Great Leap Forward was an actual, albeit temporary, shrinking of the Chinese economy. However, from 1952 to 1978 GDP per capita grew at an average rate of 3.6%, outpacing inflation. Another trend from The Great Leap Forward, was the steady decline of those employed in the agricultural sector, as the industrial sector grew.
Wu Zhipu (Chinese: 吴芝圃; 1906–1967) was the first CPC governor of Henan and CPC Committee Secretary of Henan.He was born in Henan.. Wu pressured his subordinates to harvest grain well in excess of official quotas during the Great Leap Forward, claiming 450 million jin was produced in 1958 when in reality villagers only harvested 281 million jin.
During this visit, Mao made the statement "People's Communes are good" (Chinese: 人 民 公 社 好; pinyin: Rénmín gōngshè hǎo) which triggered the collectivization in the Great Leap Forward. [2] The North Park Commune was organized on August 20, 1958, a few days after Mao's visit, as the first People's Commune in Shandong.