The Great Leap Forward - Grand projects
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- The Great Leap Forward 1958-1962
- Grand Projects
- Mass mobilisation
- Domestic: power & success of CCP and Mao
- International: China now seen as a superpower
- Included the building of bridges, canals, dams
- Civil engineering - visible to the public
- Tiananmen Square (1957)
- Bigger than the Red Square in Moscow
- Show superiority and that China was now the World Communist leader
- Ming Tomb Reservoirs (1958)
- Mao as a worker
- Message of equality
- Prison/Labour camps also provided the labour for these projects
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