Great Leap Forward

noun

1. the attempt by the People's Republic of China in 1959–60 to solve the country's economic problems by labour-intensive industrialization

Example Sentences

The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution - campaigns led by Communist China's founder to reshape the nation's economy and society - resulted in millions of deaths.

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China’s really great leap forward has been in terms of electricity generation.

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In 1958, Mao Zedong’s “Great Leap Forward” pushed to radically increase “efficiency” in agriculture while modernizing Chinese society, producing the worst famine in human history.

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And after a slow start to 2024 there was another great leap forward in Miami in May this year.

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However – and it’s a big however – the story of disability in film is perpetually one of two steps forward, one step back, and Nessarose in “Part 1” is definitely a great leap forward.

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