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What does Great Leap Forward mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Great Leap Forward? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. (historical) A vast economic and social plan lasting from 1958 to 1961 which aimed to use the Chinese population to rapidly transform the People's Republic of China from a primarily agrarian economy by peasant farmers into a modern communist society through agriculturalization and industrialization.
  2. A theoretical point in human evolution at which point complex tools, weapons, sculptures, etc. began to appear, supplanting previous primitive behaviour.
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A striking painting that was in her show is The Great Leap Forward, a large rectangular canvas with a dramatically diagonal composition.
But the mass movement known as the Great Leap Forward plunged China into the depths of an economic recession followed by unprecedentedly widespread famine that caused at least 30 million deaths.
Although the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution were short in duration, their impact on China's environmental conditions was profound.
The Great Leap Forward involved an enormous amount of experimentation.
In 1958, Tibet was launched together with the rest of China on the Great Leap Forward, which bled it white.
His Cultural Revolution sought to punish those in the Communist Party who had challenged Mao throughout his career, but most especially during the Great Leap Forward.

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