EVENT INFORMATION

5
Mei
1958

The Party’s “general line” launches the Great Leap Forward

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📅 5 Mei 1958 📍 China

The second session of the Eighth Party Congress endorsed a drive to achieve rapid industrial and agricultural growth through mass mobilization. The campaign sought to close the gap with advanced economies and avoid dependence on foreign powers. Unrealistic targets, politicized reporting and forced diversion of labor from agriculture made output statistics unreliable and production increasingly fragile.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Mao Zedong

Liu Shaoqi

Zhou Enlai

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Communist Party of China

local governments

state enterprises