In 1958, China's Great Leap Forward
called programs designed to increase both industrial and agricultural
production.
To add, the Great Leap Forward was an
effort made by the Communist Party of China (CPC) under the leadership of Mao
Zedong (also known as Mao Tse-tung) to transform China into a society capable
of competing with other industrialized nations, within a short, five-year time
period.