Usually means: Radical Chinese industrialization and collectivization campaign.
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  1. Great Leap Forward: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Great Leap Forward, the Great Leap Forward: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Great Leap Forward: Wiktionary
  4. Great Leap Forward (disambiguation), Great Leap Forward (evolution), Great Leap Forward, Great leap forward, The Great Leap Forward: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Great Leap Forward: TheFreeDictionary.com
  6. great leap forward: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Great Leap Forward (China), Great Leap Forward, The Great Leap Forward: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (Great Leap Forward)

noun:  (historical) A vast economic and social plan lasting from 1958 to 1961 which aimed to use the Chinese population to rapidly transform the Communist China from a primarily agrarian economy by peasant farmers into a modern communist society through agriculturalization and industrialization, but failed disastrously (resulting in massive famine and the deaths of many millions of people).
noun:  A theoretical point in human evolution at which point complex tools, weapons, sculptures, etc. began to appear, supplanting previous primitive behaviour.

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