Great Leap Forward
Great Leap Forward
During the period of 1957 to 1960, China's economic plan encouraged revitalizing the various sectors of the economy. Chairman Mao initiated this plan, which emphasized communes and working together, living together, eating together to acheieve a highly industrialized society. Mao's planning was unrealistic and ignored basic farming methods and knowledge that had been handed down for centuries in favor of new and uneducated guesses about how to produce more food for China's people. In 1959 there was a famine in China and Mao was forced to turn government administration over to Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping. Great Leap Forward
During the period of 1957 to 1960, China's economic plan encouraged revitalizing the various sectors of the economy. Chairman Mao initiated this plan, which emphasized communes and working together, living together, eating together to acheieve a highly industrialized society. Mao's planning was unrealistic and ignored basic farming methods and knowledge that had been handed down for centuries in favor of new and uneducated guesses about how to produce more food for China's people. In 1959 there was a famine in China and Mao was forced to turn government administration over to Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping. Great Leap Forward
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