Great leap forward
- Mao’s new economic plan after five year plans criticized
- China organized into 28,000 communes
- Main factors: Great industrial and scientific activity
- Muscle power used to build, dams, and irrigation
- Small communal factories
- Famine a huge problem (30,000,000 deaths)
Summery
Mao's attempt at boosting china's economy. It was a huge step backward it destroyed culture and putdown the educated. Many people were forced from there homes into hardworking communes. Many people died from lack of food production. Mao is still looked upon as a great leader