what did the great leap accomplish
The Great Leap Forward was begun in 1957 by Chairman Mao Zedong to bring the nation quickly into the forefront of economic development. Mao wanted China to become a leading industrial power, and to accomplish his goals he and his colleagues pushed for the construction of steel plants across the country.hina's Great Leap Forward. My parents were peasants who worked in the field. We grew wheat in the area where I lived, and they were part of a production team, said Yang, who was born in 1964, three years after the Great Leap Forward had ended.