Great Leap Forward

noun

1. the Great Leap Forward
   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

What just a few years ago seemed like a treacherous attempt to make a great leap forward finally feels like normal.

From Salon

It follows that anyone who does not bow down mindlessly in obeisance to them is evil, and must be purged, for society to be cleansed, to usher in the “Great Leap Forward” or “Thousand Year Reich.”

From Salon

From 1958 to 1961, at least 25 million people died in the famine associated with the Great Leap Forward in China.

From New York Times

Soon after, the founder of Communist China, Mao Zedong, launched the Great Leap Forward, an ambitious but disastrous campaign to transform the impoverished country into an industrial power.

From Seattle Times

Which world leader’s Great Leap Forward campaign, intended to increase food production, instead resulted in the starvation of millions?

From Slate