The Technological Revolution. "great Leap Forward" Movement Study

The technology revolution movement during"the Great leap Forward"period is a subject that hasn't received much attention from the researchers,while it is one that deserves deep study and discussion.This movement was the engine of"the Great leap Forward"and was the majar means that Mao Zedong took as to surpass UK , catch up with America,and contest with Soviet Union.During"the Great leap Forward"period, no matter the industry front or the agriculture front, in the commercial departments or the culture and educational departments, people from all walks of life involved in technology revolution movement and pushed the movement to high tides over and over again. However, in this period, the intellctuals were exclude from the movement.So, it depended mainly on the illiterate and the semiliterate and was forced without essential conditions such as technology and material.And,therefore,it was destined to end without any fruits.As the national economy turned to be harder and harder,the movement couldn't continue in all the fronts.After the CPC adjusted the wrong strategies of"the Great leap Forward",the technology revolution movement no longer throve.This paper consists of three parts:preface,body text and concluding remarks.The preface mainly introduces the research object,discusses the research significance and briefly describe the research status of this subjiece in China and abroad.And on the basis of this , it also introduces the research thinking and methods of this paper.Chapter 1,the guidance of the technology revolution idealogy of Mao Zedong .The technology revolution movement was launched under the guidance of the technology revolution idealogy of Mao Zedong,which mainly contains three parts,"What is technology revolution","Why do we need technology revolution"and"How to carry it out".Chapter 2, technology revolution movement in the aricultural front. It mainly discusses how did technology revolution carry out in the agricultural front,which has undergone three climaxes:"improvement of tools","the change of ball bearing"and"turning rope to towing machine".Chapter 3, technology revolution movement in the industrial front. This part stresses on how technology revolution movement carried out in the industrial front, the main contents of it and the ideological struggle problems in it.Chapter 4, technology revolution movement declined gradually. The techology revolution movement during"the Great leap Forward"was forced by the means of launching mass movement. And it was lack of essential conditions. Therefore, this movement was impossoble to produce the results that our party and people expected, on the contrary, it brought us a senes of adverse effects. As our national economy became harder and harder, the movement which violated the developing law gradually declined.The concluding remarks reviews the whole text, and concludes the reasons why the technology revolution movement hadn't reached the expected goal and the experience and lessons we should learn from it.