Question

Which of the following events is not true of China’s modern history?

Question 1 options:

Mao’s Great Leap Forward plan to increase industry was a great success.


Since 1976, China has had a mixture of market economy and a communist economy


The Cultural Revolution under Mao in the 1960s oppressed students and professionals


China refused to join Taiwan as “one China”

Answer 1

Answer: Mao’s Great Leap Forward plan to increase industry was a great success.

Explanation:

Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward plan to improve both agriculture and increase industry was a staggering failure that led to tens of millions of deaths mostly of peasants in the countryside who died of famine.

Mao had tried to emulate Stalin's Five year plans in the Soviet Union and so called for farms to be collectivized as he thought to would increase production. Instead it caused famine on a massive scale due to mismanagement and deception based on fear.