Proper 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).
A theoretical point in human evolution at which point complex tools, weapons, sculptures, etc. began to appear, supplanting previous primitive behaviour.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgIt is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward. Louis Sachar
After a short period of agony, I took a great leap forward from copying nature, in a more or less impressionist style, to feeling the content of things. Gabriele Munter
According to Zhang Rongmei, a geometry teacher in rural Shanghai during the Great Leap Forward: "We took all the furniture, pots, and pans we had in our house, and all our neighbours did likewise. Source: Internet
A faint aroma can be whiffed of the starved corpses of the Kulaks of the Ukraine, of the peasants of the Great Leap Forward, of those brought to Cambodia’s killing fields. Source: Internet
Deng Xiaoping, who was opposed to the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, has to a certain extent rejected Mao's legacy, famously saying that Mao was "70% right and 30% wrong". Source: Internet
Friends have helped me refresh my mind on that dry theme by furnishing two classic, period movies on India’s first decade and Breaking with Old Ideas on China during Mao’s Great Leap Forward. Source: Internet