The old systems of how things were managed in the more feudal society, simply these were not going to cut it. The government needed more measures that would be able to serve as mechanisms by which the state could control everything from food rations to housing and marriage. This is what you'd be identified as. And then you'd be issued a registration card and assigned to something called a than way or a work unit. So enemies of the state started being identified, enemies of their revolution.
The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China was an economic and social campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party from 1958 to 1962. CCP 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. Instead it would result in the death of millions.
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