


Local officials were fearful of Anti-Rightist Campaigns and competed to fulfill or over-fulfill quotas based on Mao's exaggerated claims, collecting "surpluses" that in fact did not exist and leaving farmers to starve. Mao decreed increased efforts to multiply grain yields and bring industry to the countryside. Chairman Mao Zedong launched the campaign to reconstruct the country from an agrarian economy into a communist society through the formation of people's communes.

The Great Leap Forward ( Second Five Year Plan) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and socialĬampaign led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1958 to 1962.
