The Great Leap Forward {1} What: The Great Leap Forward was the agricultural transformation where China went from agriculture to industrial. This was unsuccessful and led to 56m deaths, 3m by suicide Why: To modernise their economy, caths up with the west, commitment to communism & self-sufficiency Who: This campaign was led by none other than Mao, the chairman of the CCP at the time. He wanted China to become economically powerful. Unfortunately, his campaign led to a famine, killing almost 60m people (1 ene 1958 año – 1 ene 1962 año)
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1 ene 1958 año
1 ene 1962 año
~ 4 years