Backyard+Steel+Campaign

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Mao believed that anything could be achieved with enough man power, and used this philosophy when he decided to launch the backyard steel campaign. This was one of the failures of Mao's great leap forward (1958-1962). In order to produce more steel, Mao had peasants making furnaces in their back yards, and encouraged them to melt down any spare steel items they owned. The backyard steel campaign did cause China to produce a greater amount of steel, but this steel was useless as it would break and crack because of its poor quality.