Great Leap Forward
The Great Leap Forward was the campaign launched by the Chinese Communist leadership in 1958 to quickly catch up to and leapfrog over Great Britain and the United States. Having bec...
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Three Revolutions Movement
The Three Revolutions movement (Samdae hyongmyong undong; refers to the ideological, technical, and cultural revolutions of the Communist Party) was a campaign that took pla...
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a Why was the Great Leap Forward program a failure"
The Great Leap Forward programme was introduced in 1958 when Mao saw that a new middle class of "experts" growing up, calling the shots in high p...
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Mao's Great Leap Forward (GLF), which could be recognized as China's 2nd 5-Year Plan which followed the failure of its first was launched in 1958. However by 1965, The GLF for China had turned out to ...
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They love Yao. Now comes Yi _ Yi Jianlian, the 7-foot power forward who will be among the top choices in Thursday's NBA draft.He'll be the fourth Chinese to make the NBA, but will he have the impac...
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Vienna (dpa) - In Vienna, the International Nuclear Energy Agency
declined to comment on the announcement by Iran that it achieved the
capability to mass-produce enriched ur...
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China's government has strongly protested against the erection
of a private memorial in Washington to remember the ''victims of
Communism,'' a Foreign Ministry spokesman reiterated Thursday.
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BEIJING, Jan 15 (Reuters) - French car-maker Citroen has
apologised to China for running a full-page advertisement in
several Spanish newspapers featuring a poster of late Chinese
leader Mao Zedon...
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BEIJING, Jan 19 (Reuters) - A villager and his six-year-old
grandson were killed when a section of a 150-metre bridge
collapsed under their oxcart in southwest China, Xinhua news
agency said late ...
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Protests by angry farmers will not deter India's communists from razing farms to build factories in eastern India, a top official said Wednesday, hours after a policeman was killed by demonstrators...
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A former defense minister whose name was stricken from history books after he was accused of plotting to assassinate Communist leader Mao Zedong has been included in a museum exhibit honoring a gro...
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Vienna (dpa) - Speaking at the Natanz enrichment plant, President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proudly proclaimed Monday that Iran had achieved
the capability to produce enriched ura...
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GUANGZHOU, China, Oct 18 (Reuters) - At the door of the
Commune Mess Hall restaurant, a young woman in loose-fitting
army fatigues and a cap, with a red "Serve the People" armband
and braided pigt...
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A few years back, the Leshan Giant Buddha started to weep.Or so some locals imagined when black streaks appeared on the rose-colored cheeks of the towering 7th-century figure, hewn from sandstone c...
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Great Leap Forward
China under Mao Zedong
Great leap forward for NBA: Yao to Yi
