Great Leap Forward

English Etymology en zh - 大躍進. en a People's Daily commentator - 1957 1. Proper noun Great Leap Forward 1 en historical A vast economic and social plan lasting from 1958 to 1961 which aimed to use the Chinese population to rapidly transform the Communist China from a primarily agrarian economy by peasant farmers into a modern communist society through agriculturalization and industrialization, but failed disastrously (resulting in massive famine and the deaths of many millions of people). en 1960 Survey of China Mainland Press https://books.google.com/books?id=FCE1AQAAIAAJ 2308-2328 0499-0390 1695580 30 Louti, in Hunan Province, Central China, is one of the numerous small industrial cities that have grown up since liberation, particularly since the big leap forward. on en 1971 Thomas Jay Matthews The Cultural Revolution in Szechwan The Cultural Revolution in the Provinces https://archive.org/details/culturalrevoluti0000unse/ w:Harvard University Press 0-674-17985-4 77-162858 195365 4583663M 96 https://archive.org/details/culturalrevoluti0000unse/page/96 In the early 1960s, following the collapse of Mao's Great Leap Forward, Liu and Chang, as party officials in the city of I-pin (120 miles south of Szechwan's capital, Chengtu), vigorously prosecuted those cadres under their jurisdiction who had shown less than wholehearted devotion to that campaign. A theoretical point in human evolution at which point complex tools, weapons, sculptures, etc. began to appear, supplanting previous primitive behaviour. Translations Great Leap Forward (in China) Arabic: ar Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 大躍進 Dàyuèjìn Czech: cs Velký skok vpřed m Dutch: nl Grote Sprong Voorwaarts m Finnish: fi suuri harppaus French: fr Grand Bond en avant m German: de Großer Sprung nach vorn m Hungarian: hu nagy ugrás Italian: it Grande balzo in avanti m Japanese: ja 大躍進政策 だいやくしんせいさく, Daiyakushin-seisaku, ja 大躍進 だいやくしん, Daiyakushin Korean: ko ^대약진(大躍進) Mongolian: mn Их үсрэлтийн бодлого Polish: pl Wielki skok naprzód m Portuguese: pt Grande Salto Adiante m Russian: ru Большо́й скачо́к m Spanish: es Gran Salto Adelante m Swedish: sv stora språnget n Ukrainian: uk Вели́кий стрибо́к m Uyghur: ug چوڭ سەكرەش, ug چوڭ سەكرەپ ئىلگىرىلەش Vietnamese: vi Đại nhảy vọt en History of China Historical events Maoism