📅 31 December 1952
By the end of 1952, land redistribution had been completed across most of the mainland, although implementation in some minority regions followed a different timetable. Hundreds of millions of rural...
📅 31 December 1959
The Great Leap famine began amid collapsing harvests, labor dislocation, exaggerated reports and state procurement that left many rural communities without adequate food. Estimates of excess deaths...
📅 1 December 1984
Rural industry grew rapidly under local collective and township arrangements, absorbing labor and using household savings and local state support. TVEs offered an alternative to migration into...
