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 .

2025年3月27日 · The Great Leap Forward was the campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party between 1958 and early 1960 to organize China’s vast population, especially in large-scale rural communes, to meet the country’s industrial and agricultural problems.

2024年7月25日 · The Great Leap Forward was an ambitious plan for economic development, urbanization, and industrialization in China during the late 1950s into the 60s. The plan, however, ended up...

2018年3月18日 · At the core of the Great Leap Forward was a policy of collectivisation that forced the vast majority of China’s peasants into enormous state-owned farms in an attempt to manage production and improve output. The policy was disastrous, contributing to the devastating famine of the late 1950s.

The Great Leap Forward (Simplified Chinese: 大跃进; Traditional Chinese: 大躍進; pinyin: Dàyuèjìn) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social plan used from 1958 to 1960 which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform mainland China from a primarily agrarian economy dominated by peasant farmers ...

The Great Leap Forward was the campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party between 1958 and early 1960 to organize China’s vast population, especially in large-scale rural communes, to meet the country’s industrial and agricultural problems.

The ironically titled Great Leap Forward was supposed to be the spectacular culmination of Mao Zedong’s program for transforming China into a Communist paradise. In 1958, Chairman Mao launched a radical campaign to outproduce Great Britain, mother of the Industrial Revolution, while simultaneously achieving Communism before the Soviet Union.