Chinas Economic Journey - 29 Minute Books - Audio (29 Minute Books) lydbok

For it was back in 1958 when Chairman Mao undertook the ‘Great Leap Forward’ program, which goals were to make China what it is today, a contender for the world title of economic superpower. Mao’s tactics when implementing his grand vision - which focused on domestic steel production at the expense of agriculture - proved to be fatally flawed and led to the deaths of an estimated 30 million people through famine, but the lessons learned were invaluable to future generations of communist economic strategists.