Mao’s China · TURNING POINT ·
Chayashan Sputnik People’s Commune (1958)
On the Mao’s China map as “The Sputnik commune”
Apr–Aug 1958 — In Suiping county, Henan, 27 co-operatives merge into one unit of some 9,000 households that runs farming, industry, schools and the militia together; in August it is named the Chayashan Sputnik People’s Commune. Its charter became a national model within weeks. By December some 26,000 communes held nearly every rural household.
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- Great Leap Forward (chapter 6 of Mao’s China)
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- The People’s Republic under Mao, 1949–1976
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