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: Mao ordered the extermination of sparrows, believing they ate grain. Instead, the loss of sparrows led to a locust plague that devastated crops. The Collapse: A Man-Made Disaster

: Peasants were ordered to melt down their cooking pots, tools, and doorknobs in crude furnaces to produce steel. This resulted in useless, low-quality pig iron and left farmers with no tools to till the land. Mao's Great Famine

: Private farming was abolished, and villagers were forced into massive communes of up to 20,000 households. : Mao ordered the extermination of sparrows, believing

As production targets became impossible to meet, local officials feared being labeled "rightists" and began over-reporting their harvests to Beijing. This resulted in useless, low-quality pig iron and

In 1958, Chairman Mao Zedong launched the , an ambitious plan to rapidly transform China from an agrarian economy into a communist industrial superpower. The goal was to surpass the industrial output of Great Britain within 15 years. To achieve this, the state implemented radical changes: