English Dictionary

Great Leap Forward

固有名詞

歴史的

(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).

日本語の意味

大躍進政策：1958年から1961年にかけて中華人民共和国において実施された経済・社会政策。農業主体の国から近代的な共産主義社会へと急速に転換するため、農業の集団化と工業化を推進したが、計画が失敗し大規模な飢饉と多数の犠牲者を出した。

Historians still debate the causes and consequences of the Great Leap Forward, a disastrous campaign from 1958 to 1961 that attempted to rapidly industrialize and collectivize China and led to widespread famine.

歴史家たちはなおも、中国が1958年から1961年にかけて行った急速な工業化と人民公社化を目指した大規模な政策（大躍進）の原因と結果について議論しており、その政策は壊滅的で広範な飢饉をもたらした。

意味（1）

(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).

In the early 1960s, following the collapse of Mao's Great Leap Forward, Liu and Chang, as party officials in the city of I-pin (120 miles south of Szechwan's capital, Chengtu), vigorously prosecuted those cadres under their jurisdiction who had shown less than wholehearted devotion to that campaign.

意味（2）

A theoretical point in human evolution at which point complex tools, weapons, sculptures, etc. began to appear, supplanting previous primitive behaviour.

the Great Leap Forward （ canonical ）