. . "The Great Leap Forward(simplified Chinese: \u5927\u8DC3\u8FDB; traditional Chinese: \u5927\u8E8D\u9032; pinyin: D\u00E0 yu\u00E8 j\u00ECn) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social campaign by the Communist Party of China (CPC) from 1958 to 1961. The campaign was led by Mao Zedong and aimed to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a socialist society through rapid industrialization and collectivization. Some critics consider this campaign to have caused the Great Chinese Famine."@en .