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Mao's Great Leap Forward was an economic program that was to take China from the agrarian stage into industrialization quickly. Agricultural Collectivism was introduced and private farms were banned. Actions taken during this program led toe the Great Chinese Famine.

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He wanted China to rapidly industrialize without following the Soviet model.

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Because Mao and other Communist parties were retreating from the Kuomintang.

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He wanted China to rapidly industrialize without following the Soviet model.

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