What was a purpose of the great leap forward?

Answer 1

`` so that you can jump over the puddle´´ that and besides that,

Mao basically felt constantly humiliated by the Soviets, this rivalry was based on the fact that both leaders (this goes for stalin but also Khrushchev who took over power after Stalins death) wanted to be the ultimate leaders of cummunism. Fundamental for the cause of this friction was Stalins maltreatment towards Mao back in the days where Mao was fully dependant on Stalin as basically had to do everything Stalin demanded. the main reason for the Great Leap Forward is the fact that Mao Zedong saw the comment by Stalin promising that the Soviet Union would catch up with the United States in per-capita production of meat, milk and butter within the next few years as a challenge and its purpose, though is official purpose is mao´s attempt to modernise China's economy so that by 1988, China would have an economy that rivalled America, was mainly to take up the Soviet´ challenge and show off exactly who´s boss and therefore deserves the title of the ultimate leader of communism.