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Even so, work by Yang and others has proved that senior leaders in Beijing knew of the famine as early as 1958. To distribute resources evenly will only ruin the Great Leap Forward, Mao warned colleagues a year later. When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death.
The Longest Public Holiday in China. In 2016 most Chinese will be off work from Sunday, February 7 (New Year's Eve) to Saturday, February 13 (the 6th day of Chinese New Year). Officially only the first three days of Chinese New Year (February 8â10, 2016) are statutory holiday.