There is deep trace of Mao Zedong Thought in the “Great Leap Forward”. The original intention that Mao Zedong started the “Great Leap Forward” was to realize industrialization and agricultural modernization in China as soon as possible. However, for various of reason, the expected goal was not achieved and some painful lessons were left. During the period of the “Great Leap Forward”, Mao Zedong made ten self-criticism among cadres of different levels and at different meetings, which showed a great politician’s broad heart and spirit of self-criticism, as well as the great capability of self-correction and self-healing of a proletarian party’s. As a specific historical symbol, the “Great Leap Forward” has been engraved on Chinese nation’s special historical memory.

Editor: zhang Jiangang