The official Chinese Communist Party term for the catastrophic Great Leap Forward, which led to economic collapse and a famine that killed as many as 45 million people, is “the three years of economic difficulty.”
Associate Professor of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota
The official Chinese Communist Party term for the catastrophic Great Leap Forward, which led to economic collapse and a famine that killed as many as 45 million people, is “the three years of economic difficulty.”