The Four Evils campaign (Chinese: 除四害; pinyin: Chú Sì Hài) was one of the first campaigns of the Great Leap Forward in See more

The failure of food production during the Great Leap Forward was due to newly mandated agricultural practices imposed by the state. The mismanagement in agriculture can be attributed to the Chinese Communis… See more

The Four Pests Campaign is representative of many of the overarching themes of Mao's Great Leap Forward. In order to expedite China's industrialization, and to achieve a socialist utopia, Mao sought to utilize China's nat… See more

1. 1957: Before Initiation First proposed by Mao in the Third Plenary Session of the 8th CPC Central Committee.
2. 1958: Initial Planning The idea for the Four Pests Campaign was proposed in 1958 as part of the Great L… See more

During the Great Leap Forward, a socio-economic campaign initiated by the Chinese government in the late 1950s with the ambitious goal of rapidly transforming the country from an agrarian society to an industrializ… See more

While the campaign achieved its immediate goal of reducing disease transmission via the killing of rats, flies, and mosquitoes, the mass extermination of sparrows disrupted the delicate ecological balance. With the sparrow po… See more