A farmer in Gaodadian Village in the Xinyang region of Henan Province. 60 years ago, over half of the villagers in Gaodadian starved to death as a result of Mao’s Great Leap forward.

Xi Extols China’s ‘Red’ Heritage in a Land Haunted by Famine Under Mao

Seventy years after Mao founded the People’s Republic, Xi Jinping visited Xinyang to rekindle revolutionary traditions. Its survivors of mass starvation went unmentioned.

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