Mao Zedong's Great Sparrow Campaign aimed to eliminate pests but led to ecological imbalance and a catastrophic famine.

From 1958-1962 in China, The Four Pests Campaign was part ... ecosystem changed other aspects enough to create a disastrous famine that led to the deaths of at least 15 million people.

This is similar to how Chinese news platforms and apps, which are used worldwide, refrain from publishing negative news about ...

but the year 2022 marked the first time deaths outpaced births since 1961 when China was in the midst of the disastrous Great Leap Forward plan, which led to a famine in which an estimated 20 ...