Launching satellites

The expression 'launching satellites'[2] (Chinese: 放卫星, Pinyin: 'fang weixing'),[3] alternatively translated as "putting satellites into orbit",[4] refers to a socialist construction campaign that began in 1958 during the "Great Leap Forward" and was anxious for success by 1959.[5] During the Great Leap Forward, exaggeration was prevalent throughout China,[6] with false reports exaggerating food production, and these false reports of "wheat satellites", "rice satellites", "grain satellites", "tobacco satellites", and other similar acts in various industries were unanimously called "Launching Satellites".[7]

Launching satellites
Chinese放卫星
Meaningrefers to the exaggerated achievements in the Great Leap Forward[1]

The term "launching satellites" was coined in honor of Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite launched by the USSR.[8]

China successfully launched a sounding rocket in 1964 and the satellite Dong Fang Hong I in 1970.

See also

References
  1. Xiaobo Lü (2000). Cadres and Corruption: The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party. Stanford University Press. pp. 349–. ISBN 978-0-8047-6448-3.
  2. Henry He (22 July 2016). Dictionary of the Political Thought of the People's Republic of China. Routledge. pp. 58–. ISBN 978-1-315-50044-7.
  3. Si-ming Li; Wing-shing Tang (2000). China's Regions, Polity, and Economy: A Study of Spatial Transformation in the Post-reform Era. Chinese University Press. ISBN 978-962-201-854-9.
  4. Jesus Sole-Farras (20 November 2013). New Confucianism in Twenty-First Century China: The Construction of a Discourse. Routledge. pp. 177–. ISBN 978-1-134-73908-0.
  5. "Fading economic terms". Southern Weekly. 2009-09-10.
  6. Mao Huahe (22 July 2019). The Ebb and Flow of Chinese Petroleum: A Story Told by a Witness. Brill Publishers. pp. 116–. ISBN 978-90-04-40273-7.
  7. Jun Du (7 May 2018). Agricultural Transition in China: Domestic and International Perspectives on Technology and Institutional Change. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 60–. ISBN 978-3-319-76905-9.
  8. Janet Vinzant Denhardt (2007). The New Public Service, Expanded Edition: Serving, Not Steering. M.E. Sharpe. pp. 58–. ISBN 978-0-7656-2181-8.
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