The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, commonly known as the Cultural Revolution, was a socio-political movement that occurred in the People's Republic of China starting in 1966, with a huge impact on China.Reasons for Mao calls for the Cultural RevolutionThere are several reasons why Mao calls for the Cultural Revolution, as the situation at that time is full of bourgeois thinking, the free market policies implemented by Liu and also the ideological difference with Khrushchev, all these factors make Mao wanted to safeguard the purity of the Communist Revolution. Furthermore, he also wanted to remove Liu and find his own successor through this mass movement. After the failure of the Great Leap Forward, which led to the Great Famine and economic disaster, Mao resigned as President of the People's Republic of China in 1962. Retaining the title of Chairman of the Communist Party, he renounced its day-to-day management and handed over responsibility for economy to President Liu Shaoqi. To address the threat of famine, Liu believes that some free markets should be allowed as the only way to fight famine. He implemented policies that allowed farmers to grow private plots in the backyards of their homes and sell the produce at farmers' markets. Liu also decentralized decision-making and economic planning to economic organizations below the commune level, restored material incentives to peasants and collective farming, and implemented more realistic economic planning and programs. (Guo, 2013) As a result, about half of the agricultural land in China has returned to the hands of individual families. The result of these changes was a sudden increase in the amount of food produced in China. (Karl, 2010)However, these changes reduced the influence of the M...... half of the paper revolution ......ral, Mao wished to eliminate the threat, as the bourgeoisie thought, of capitalism in society. During the Great Leap Forward, Mao wanted to implement communism. For example, building a state-owned industrial economy, organizing all farmers into agricultural cooperatives; establish people's communes throughout rural areas of China. All of these aim to build a new socialist economic system through socialist transformation and nationalization of major industries and the creation of a Soviet-style centrally planned socialist economy. The difference between these two movements is that the Cultural Revolution also aims to eliminate Mao's rival and people who have different ideas. faith like Mao. For example, Mao removed Liu and Deng. On the other hand, the Great Leap Forward aims at China's economic growth and the hope of catching up with the United States and the United Kingdom..