Weegy: The Red Guards fought to preserve communism.
User: After Mao’s death, China began to move toward a more open, market economy.
Weegy: True, a more open economy was developed
User: Deng Xioping considerably _______________ the government's control of China’s economy, created a market economy.
Weegy: Deng Xioping considerably loosened the government's control of China's economy, created a market economy.
User: Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward included
Weegy: Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward included what?
The Great Leap Forward (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: D? yu? j n) 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 industrialization and collectivization. Mao Zedong led the campaign based on the Theory of Productive Forces, and intensified it after being informed of the impending disaster from grain shortages.
Chief changes in the lives of rural Chinese included the introduction of a mandatory process of agricultural collectivization, which was introduced incrementally. Private farming was prohibited, and those engaged in it were labeled as counter revolutionaries and persecuted. Restrictions on rural people were enforced through public struggle sessions, and social pressure, although people also experienced forced labor.[1] Rural industrialization, officially a priority of the campaign, saw "its development ? aborted by the mistakes of the Great Leap Forward."[2]
The Great Leap ended in catastrophe, resulting in tens of millions of excess deaths.[3] Estimates of the death toll range from 18 million[4] to 45 million,[5] with estimates by demographic specialists ranging from 18 million to 32.5 million.[4] Historian Frank Dik tter asserts that ...
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