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support of "backyard" industries is deng Xiaoping or mao Zedong
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That was Mao Zedong.
During the 1958 Great Leap Forward Mao promoted mass mobilization to create "backyard" furnaces and other cottage industries so peasants could produce steel and other goods locally. The policy produced mostly low‑quality metal, diverted labor from farming, and helped contribute to the economic disruption and famine of 1959–61.
Deng Xiaoping, by contrast, in the late 1970s–80s dismantled the communes and encouraged rural reform and township-and-village enterprises (TVEs) that were market‑oriented and far more productive — not the same top‑down backyard‑furnace campaign Mao ran.
During the 1958 Great Leap Forward Mao promoted mass mobilization to create "backyard" furnaces and other cottage industries so peasants could produce steel and other goods locally. The policy produced mostly low‑quality metal, diverted labor from farming, and helped contribute to the economic disruption and famine of 1959–61.
Deng Xiaoping, by contrast, in the late 1970s–80s dismantled the communes and encouraged rural reform and township-and-village enterprises (TVEs) that were market‑oriented and far more productive — not the same top‑down backyard‑furnace campaign Mao ran.
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