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The Great Chinese Famine (Chinese: 三年大饥荒; lit. 'three years of great famine') was a famine that occurred between 1959 and 1961 in the People's Republic of China (PRC).[2][3][4][5][6] Some scholars have also included the years 1958 or 1962.[7][8][9][10] It is widely regarded as the deadliest famine and one of the greatest man-made disasters in human history, with an estimated death toll due to starvation that ranges in the tens of millions (15 to 55 million).[note 1] The most stricken provinces were Anhui (18% dead), Chongqing (15%), Sichuan (13%), Guizhou (11%) and Hunan (8%).[1] 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 that reduced sparrow populations (which disrupted the ecosystem); ove

Great Chinese Famine - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Famine killing millions (1959–1961) This article is about the famine of 1959–1961. For other famines in Chinese history, see List of famines in China . {{cite book|script-title=zh:大饥荒：1959–1961年的中国人口|last=Cao |first=Shuji |author-mask=Cao Shuji (曹树基)|date=2005|pages=46, 67, 117, 150, 196|url=https://staff.lib.msu.edu/wuxian/GreatFamine/|publisher=Time Publishing|location=Hong Kong|isbn=978-9889828233 |language=zh}} An excerpt, which calculates death rate between 1958 and 1962, is published as: {{cite journal

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