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What best describes the difference between the Great Leap Forward in China and industrialization in Europe?

Workers in the Great Leap made steel, while European workers were given steel during industrialization.
The Great Leap featured communes without machines, while European industrialization included factories.
Workers in the Great Leap Forward were given steel, while European workers made steel during industrialization.
The Great Leap Forward featured factories, while European industrialization included communes without machines.

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"The Great Leap featured communes without machines, while European industrialization included factories."

Explanation: The Great Leap Forward relied on collectivized people's communes and decentralized, often primitive backyard furnaces (little mechanization and poor-quality steel), whereas European industrialization centered on mechanized factories, centralized production, and machine-driven manufacturing.