Mao Zedong dreamed of China's economy rivaling the United States by 1988 through industry and agriculture. With the Five Year Plan executed from 1958 to 1963, the sense of incapable odds brought the plans to a halt.
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the Great Leap Forward
Huge collective farms formed during the Great Leap forward was called communes. The US supported the nationalists with financial aid and weapons during the civil war.
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It wrecked China's industries and education system. It tried to have a number of people do a number of different tasks at the local level instead of specialize in just one thing. As a result it brought great poverty and starvation.
It was a second five year plan. It failed.