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I did know a bit about the state of depression China was in about seventy to eighty years ago from the stories that I heard from the older generation of people in my family. I kind of knew that for some families, there were issues where education wasn't able to be afforded and that people had to do crude work all their lives to survive. I also recall hearing something along the lines of a situation where people who were once owned a lot of money or land had everything given to the government (Communism says that everything belonged to the government and could to no person alone) and because most of these people didn't really learn any important skills that could help them earn a living, so they suffered a lot in the state of depression China was in. I learnt today that the starvation issue happened because of the short thinking of a government project called "The Great Leap Forward". I also didn't know that not as many people were able to work in the fields, as they were all busy trying to create new things. And what probably caused the failure of this was the lack of information and knowledge to help them start off.

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The great leap forward was a period of time which the country has the ambition of speedily develop the agriculture and industries. I extend this by learning the specific out comes of the process. Wrong beliefs in production, such as the backyard furnaces that produced unqualified alloys and metal which doesn't match the need and target of the country, for instance it couldn't be used for the metallic structures in construction. More devastating news was that the weather remained awful, which caused the production of food to excessively diminish. In order to preserve as much food as possible, the government built up communes to provide food to people from this source that the government was able to control. However, this did not help and the starvation continues, causing millions to suffer and die. The question I have is that how did the belief of the back yard furnace production not discovered as useless?

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Connect: "the great leap forward" movement refers to the mass movement in the national economic construction from 1958 to 1960, which is mainly characterized by the realization of high indicators of industrial and agricultural production.
Extend: this movement is a serious setback for the party in exploring the road of building socialism. The reasons for the setback are basically the lack of experience in exploring China's governance and the impatience for success and rash progress in economic work.
Challenge: the great leap forward wasted national strength and manpower. Due to the lack of governance experience in New China, it has become the fundamental factor leading to the imbalance of the national economy.

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After the civil war, Mao Zedong declared a five-year economic plan called the Great Leap Forward. This plan is targeted towards developing agriculture and industry because at that time China’s economy and education were heavily fallen behind. What I find interesting is that they started to spread the propaganda to encourage people and also take part in industrial productions of making making machinery. However, it results in 30 to 45 million deaths by starvation and execution. From the handout I read, I have a deeper understanding and more clearer mind of a whole vision of the past China.

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The Great Leap Forward was a failure Five Year Plan suggested by Mao in 1958. Initially, the goal of this plan was good, which were making development on agriculture and industry. However, Mao expected too much that the peasant during that time can't achieve. In order to provide the steel, people set up the "back-yard" production plants, which they use their furnace to produce steel. At first, this added a considerable amount of steel to the country. However, the quality of the steel was too weak and was unable to be used in machinery. Moreover, the "back-yard" production also took many people away from their field which then leaded to the terrible famine in 1960.

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i knew that the great leap did not have a good effect on people in China
i learnt that the great leap failed because people then knew little about industries and steels, so they are incapable to build good things.
But why didn't the country let people go to each comunity and teach the people how to do it?

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1.I know that the Great Leap Forward shows the aspriration of chinese wanted to develop their country.
2.I have learnt that the Great Leap Forward was not suited to China's society. China is a agricultural country but the aim of   the Great Leap Forward is to transform China from a agricultural country into an advanced industrial country.
3.I wonder how the great leap forward failed in our country.

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The great leap forward was happened during the year 1958 to the year 1961. It marks the beginning of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. It happens during the second 5 year program and China build a new type of economic model is "back-yard" production which whole China was buring metals in their backyard for building weapons and other military thing.

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I knew the Great Leap Plan was about developing a huge progress on agriculture and industries before learning deeply about it. However, this action had failed.
Now, I understand why this action had failed. It is because thousands of workers were in starvation or injured, they could not work, while the government did not give the workers enough support.

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The Great Leap Forward planned to develop agriculture and industry. Mao believed that both had to grow to allow the other to grow. Industry could only prosper if the work force was well fed, while the agricultural workers needed industry to produce the modern tools needed for modernization. However, the "Great Leap Forward" and the People's Commune Movement were a serious mistake in China's exploration. It ignored the objective law of economic development. It also greatly damaged industrial and agricultural production, seriously disproportioned the national economy and caused serious difficulties in people's life.

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The "Great Leap Forward" refers to the mass movement carried out in economic construction throughout the country from 1958 to 1960 to achieve high targets for industrial and agricultural production. This movement was a serious setback for the Party in the process of exploring the road of building socialism.

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In the Great Leap Forward period, China’s government decided to speed up the development of the economic of China.So it is basically speed up the production mainly include industry and agriculture. Also one of the main purpose is increase the production of steel and iron.But unfortunately the people who are doing these things did not do it correctly, they lie about their report about working achievements. So it means that the work they’ve done does not match the true practical work. Which cause a heavy problem for the economic systems in China. The decision about this event is not wrong but people in China desire to success so badly, Which cause the quality of the production does not qualify.

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I know that the five-year economic plan Great Leap Forward was a failure and has bad effects on people in China back then.
People does not have the technology to build steel and industries in such short period, they expected too much from the peasant.
I wonder why the government is so urgent about pushing China to catch up with other strong countries.

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What I know-the Great Lead forward is a plan that Mao announced in 1958 planning to develop agriculture and industry.
What I learned-how it was the largest episode of mass killing in human history due to starvation, forced labor, along with massive economic and environmental destruction, how it was a huge failure.

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The great leap was a artificial mistake made by the communist china, leading the people in the dirrection of improving and developing industries, and widely propagate the way of communism and metallic structure broking every houses metal, and sending people into public canteen, so soon when the the corpse in the country became low produce, and the government’s ignorance, fearing this will end it’s ambitious plan(transcend England and America).China should focus more on agriculture at the time.