China: 'The Vegetables are Green, the Cucumbers Plump, the Yield Abundant'. Propaganda poster from the Great Leap Forward (1958-1961) by Jin Meisheng, 1959. The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social campaign of the Communist Party of China (CPC), reflected in planning decisions from 1958 to 1961, which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a modern communist society through the process of rapid industrialisation, and collectivisation.

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