The Great Leap Forward was a five-year economic plan implemented by Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party, started in 1958 and canceled in 1961.
The goal was to modernize the country’s agricultural sector using communist economic ideologies.
Instead of stimulating the country’s economy, the “Great Leap Forward” led to mass starvation and starvation.
It is estimated that between 30 and 45 million Chinese citizens died from starvation, executions and forced labor, as well as massive economic and environmental destruction.
The Great Leap Forward remains the largest non-war massacre in human history and a prime example of the failure of socialism and economic central planning.