The Great Leap Forward - The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

In 19 58, after quite a decent year of weather, the most exaggerated claims were made about how great everything was going with agricultural yields. Ma would show up on train, and the whole moment would be staged. Who cared what bey jing said, as long as chairman mise said it. It was gospel. To give you an idea that 525 million ton number, china's grain output last year and 20 16 was about 616 million tons. And china to day is a far cry from what it was 60 years ago. So the whole system was an utter and complete shambolic to the maximum, from the top down and back up to the top.