Mao Zedong and some of the survivors of the Long March emerged as the core leaders in (3) China. Mao Zedong is responsible for China's "Great Leap Forwards", which was where he wanted to change China's agrarian economy very rapidly into industrialization. However, this proved to be very inefficient and caused widespread deaths. Mao also used terror tactics on his people and production from this movement amounted to almost nothing.