What Mao campaign was intended to industrialize China's agricultural scene?

One step forward and two steps back, the Great Leap Forward was a plan that failed so hard that people were starving. Lasting from 1958 to 1962, Mao's campaign forbade private farming and attempted to industrialize the agricultural base into a commune system. Famine ensued, killing 56 million.

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