The great leap forward
- Mao's new economic plan after five yea plans critisized
- China organized into 28,000 communes
- Main factors:
- Great industrial and scientific activity
- Muscle power used to build dams and irrigation
- Small communal factories (people burning pots, pans and silverware to try and produce steel) taking people away from farms causing a massive famine.
- Famine a huge problem (30,000,000 deaths)
Summary
In the end It was a big Failure because it took people away from what they were good at like Farmers and Doctors and had them doing other things,famine became a huge problem and it resulted in about 30,000,000 deaths.