Gabby: China decided that since its numbers were better than expected, it could export more grain. She says the country then switched to growing cash crops like cotton and tea so they can be sold for a profit on the international market. Gabby: They also raised tax rate from 20% to 28% of the harvest in 1958-1960. Despite this, production of grain dropped by 30%.
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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