During the ruling era
of Mao Zedong, Mao made China as a communist country. He said that communism
would help end China’s reputation as a lesser-developed country. He seeks after
his successful 5 years of leading China, he invented another 5 years plan called
“ The Great Leap Forward”. This was created because Mao was worried that china
was settling into the old way. He saw the middle class running the factories
and many more. He wanted revolution in order to hand control back to the
peasants and workers. Despite the success in the first five years plan, china’s
manpower is not used efficiently. There were still a lot of unemployed people.
There is also a problem of how china raise enough money to build industries in
countryside in order for the peasants to be worker. Therefore, he introduced
the ‘Great Leap Forward” plan.
Since Mao was
satisfied with his first 5 years success, he then got too ambitious. When he
introduced the “Great Leap Forward”, things started to get chaotic. The great
leap forward produce things to fast, leading to huge mistakes. Industries
became inefficient and wasteful. They came to a phase where they produce low
quality iron and steel. Food production also slumped and too many peasants had
been moved from agriculture to industry. By 1961, China was buying resources
from abroad.
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