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The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social campaign within the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 1958 to 1962, led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Party Chairman Mao Zedong launched the campaign to reconstruct the country from an agrarian economy into an industrialized society through the formation of people's communes. Mao decreed that efforts to multiply grain yields and bring industry to the countryside should be increased. Local officials were fearful of Anti-Rightist Campaigns and they competed to fulfill or over-fulfill quotas which were based on Mao's exaggerated claims, collecting non-existent "surpluses" and leaving farmers to starve to death. Higher officials did not dare to report the economic disaster which was being caused by these policies, and national officials, blaming bad weather for the decline in food output, took little or no action. Millions of people died in China during the Great Leap, with estimates ranging from 15 to 55 million, making the Gre

Great Leap Forward - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1958–1962 Chinese socioeconomic campaign For other uses, see Great Leap Forward (disambiguation) . Great Leap Forward Date 1958–1962 Location China Type Famine , economic mismanagement Cause Central planning , collectivization policies Motive Economic collectivization of agriculture, realisation of socialism Organized by CCP Chairman Mao Zedong Deaths 15~55 million Chinese name Simplified Chinese 大跃进 Traditional Chinese 大躍進 Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Dà yuè jìn Bopomofo ㄉㄚˋ ㄩㄝˋ ㄐㄧㄣˋ Wade–Gil

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