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

The line chart shows the birth rates and death rates in China with the impact of famine and one-child policy annotated. The number of Chinese women of reproductive age, defined by the United ...

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 ...