The Great Leap Forward 1958-1962
- Mao's new economic plan after five year plans criticized
- five year plans based on quotas
- Mao just decided on this plan
- China organized into 28,000 communes
- Great industrial and scientific activity
- Muscle power used to build dams and irrigation
- didn't have the technology for it so they just made people build it by hand
- small communal factories
- the people they wanted to make these things didn't know how to do it (were farmers)
- the farmers were taken away from the farms so crops were dying = famine (huge problem)
- 30,000,000 died
Summary
After Mao's five year plan was criticized he decided to bring in the new economic plan which was based on quotas. China was organized into 28,000 communes and people were put to work building things such as dams and irrigation. Because China didn't have that kind of technology people had to build these things simply by hand. People were pulled out of their jobs to work in factories and most of these people were famers which meant that they didn't know how to properly do the jobs they were asked to as well as no one was manning their farms so there was a huge famine. This ended in 30,000 people dying.