ABSTRACT
A momentary resurgence of the Great Leap Forward, spurred by the antirightist atmosphere, continued for a few months in 1960 before it came to an absolute impasse. The economic crisis became too evident and too severe. On June 6, 1960, the Party Center had to issue an emergency order for grain and other food to be brought to the capital. For most of the latter months of 1961, Mao remained in the south, absent from Beijing, leaving other leaders to clean up the economic mess. In August 1961, under Deng’s direct supervision, the Secretariat drafted the “Seventy Points on Industry,” for the purpose of strengthening factory management and regulation to promote industrial production output, and the “Sixty Points on Culture and Education,” for rectifying radical policies and normalizing schools and universities, scientific research, and liberal arts activities. Although Mao must bear the blame for the economic decline, neither Liu nor Deng can be fully credited with the economic recovery.
