POST COLD WAR WORLD
RISE OF CHINA
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Great Leap Forward
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The Great Plague
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Cultural Revolution
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Capitalist People’s Republic of China
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Detailed explanation-1: -Great Leap Forward, in Chinese history, the campaign undertaken by the Chinese communists between 1958 and early 1960 to organize its vast population, especially in large-scale rural communes, to meet China’s industrial and agricultural problems.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Great Leap Forward was a five-year economic plan executed by Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party, begun in 1958 and abandoned in 1961. The goal was to modernize the country’s agricultural sector using communist economic ideologies.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Great Leap Forward was begun in 1957 by Chairman Mao Zedong to bring the nation quickly into the forefront of economic development. Mao wanted China to become a leading industrial power, and to accomplish his goals he and his colleagues pushed for the construction of steel plants across the country.
Detailed explanation-4: -Communes (The Great Leap Forward) Private plots of land and private markets were eliminated. The labor force was reorganized into work crews for large projects-e.g. water conservation (irrigation) or local industry. Accumulated funds at the commune level were used to support education, health care, etc.