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"Go all out, strive for the upper reaches and build socialism quickly, well and economically" is one of the 80 slogans in the history of communist party, China.

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1958 In May, the second meeting of the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) held in Beijing adopted the general line of "building socialism with all efforts, striving for the upper reaches, and building socialism quickly and economically" according to Mao Zedong's creativity. Liu Shaoqi explained this in his political report, arguing that the spirit of the general line shows that the main task of the Party is to build socialism and carry out technological and cultural revolution. He also explained the policy of walking on two legs in economic development. On the one hand, the general line reflects the general desire of the broad masses of people to change the backward economic and cultural situation in China as soon as possible; On the other hand, it exaggerates the role of people's subjective initiative in economic development and ignores its own laws in the process of economic development. In particular, the propaganda work pays attention to "more" and "faster", ignoring "good" and "province", which objectively encourages the blind behavior of the Great Leap Forward. The "general line" was simple and easy to understand, and was quickly grasped by the masses, which became the slogan to mobilize the people to engage in socialist construction for a long time. [ 1]