jan 2, 1958 - The Great Leap forward

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-Mao created a program called the great leap forward
-China was collected in to farm communes which included several villages and thousands of acres of land
-They assigned jobs to each worker and by doing this they provided education, healthcare, housing and childcare and recreation.
-In order to industrialize the west, mao increased the steel production
-Farms were equiped with backyard furnaces so they can create more steel

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