Great Leap Forward
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The Great Leap Forward was an industrialization campaign within China from 1958 to 1962, led by the Chinese Communist Party. CCP Chairman Mao Zedong launched the campaign to transform the country from
Government officials being sent to work in the countryside, 1957
A canteen in a people's commune, 1958
A minecart leading to the steel base, October 1957
Backyard furnaces in the countryside, 1958
The Seven-Thousand Cadres Conference was one of the largest work conferences ever of the Chinese Communist Party. It took place in Beijing, China, from 11 January to 7 February 1962. The conference wa
President Liu Shaoqi and Chairman Mao Zedong (1964)
Mao Tse Tung