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The Great Chinese Famine ... Beginning in 1957, the Chinese Communist Party began to report excessive production of grain because of pressure from superiors. However ...
1957: Before Initiation First proposed by Mao in the Third Plenary Session of the 8th CPC Central Committee. 1958: Initial Planning The idea for the Four Pests Campaign was proposed in 1958 as part of the Great Leap Forward, a large-scale economic and social campaign initiated by the Chinese government.
Chang and Halliday use death rates determined by "Chinese demographers" for the years 1957–1963, subtract the average of the pre-and post-Leap death rates (1957, 1962, and 1963) from the death rates of each of the years 1958–1961, and multiply each yearly excess death rate by the year's population to determine excess deaths.
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
On 29 June 1957, the Guangdong committee of Chinese Communist Party authorized the Bao'an County to let the hungry get across the border. [9] The Great Chinese Famine caused another wave in 1962. [1] The New York Times reported that 140,000 Chinese entered Hong Kong in 1962, with 80,000 illegally entering in a single month. [10]
The Great Leap Forward contributed to the Great Chinese Famine (1959–1961), which caused the deaths of tens of millions of people in mainland China. [14] [15] In the official Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party since the Founding of the People's Republic of China passed in 1981, the CCP called the purge of the so-called anti-Party group of Peng Dehuai and others as ...
Jiabiangou Labor Camp (Chinese: 夹 边 沟; pinyin: Jiābiāngōu; lit. 'wedged between ditches') is a former farm labor camp (laogai) located in the area under the administration of Jiuquan in the northwestern desert region of Gansu Province. [1] [2] The camp was in use during the Anti-Rightist Campaign in the years from 1957 to 1961. [2]
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 ...