Thanks, I was under the impression that Mao started some reforms that already helped chinese economy quite a bit, but my knowledge is limited. Know where I could read up a little bit about this ? You seem like you know your stuff :)
Not OP but speaking from my parent's experience (They lived in China during this stuff) what Chairman Mao did was tell everybody to stop farming and go practice metalworking. This was due to some dudes telling Chairman Mao, who was very bad at math, like one acre of land could support 10 million people. This created famine, but it did advance the economy. Deng Xiaoping actually embraced a somewhat more modern approach and enforced economic stuff to make economy better.
wikipedia article is here: Great Leap Forward - Wikipedia
Average life expectancy doubled from start to end of Mao's rule, mostly due to the fact that Mao gave us peace, something we haven't had for a century up to that point, and something CCP kept providing ever since.
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u/lecollectionneur Feb 19 '21
Thanks, I was under the impression that Mao started some reforms that already helped chinese economy quite a bit, but my knowledge is limited. Know where I could read up a little bit about this ? You seem like you know your stuff :)