Great Leap Forward in Dutch

Great Leap Forward in Dutch is Grote Sprong Voorwaarts.

Great Leap Forward in Dutch

Grote Sprong Voorwaarts

proper noun

(historical) A vast economic and social plan lasting from 1958 to 1961 which aimed to use the Chinese population to rapidly transform the Communist China from a primarily agrarian economy by peasant farmers into a modern communist society through agriculturalization and industrialization, but failed disastrously (resulting in massive famine and the deaths of many millions of people).

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