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• Forced collectivisation of an entirely agrarian economy.

• Industrial policy that encouraged small scale iron smelting in homemade furnaces causing huge environmental damage.

• Agricultural policy that ordered the extermination of sparrows who then couldn’t keep insect populations down causing catastrophic damage to crops.

• Brutally cracked down on any dissenting voices, including scientists who happened to point out the potential flaws in Maos plan

• Contrary to OPs post, covering up the mistakes afterward and blaming outside influences and counter-revolutionaries rather than the failure of central policy.