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  2. Great Leap Forward - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. 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

  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 some of the worst famines in modern ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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.

  8. Lin Biao - Wikipedia

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    Lin became the senior leader most publicly supportive of Mao following the Great Leap Forward, [55] during which Mao's economic policies caused an artificial famine in which tens of millions of people starved to death. [56] For example, Lin publicly defended Mao during the Seven Thousand Cadres Conference in 1962. [57]

  9. First disabled astronaut marks ‘major leap forward’ – charity

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    The appointment of the first ever parastronaut marks a “major leap forward”, a leading disability equality charity has said. ... He represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the ...