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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.
With no food, people across China suffer as well. Just between 1887 and 1943, a 50 year period, the Yellow River killed about 10 million people from catastrophic floods and famine.. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_is_the_Yel... The Yellow River is called âChinaâs Sorrowâ because it is extremely prone to flooding.