... basis of the inflated harvest claims", and prepared reports designed to flatter Mao. To indicate their achievements and their loyalty, "provincial leaders reduced the amount of food for the peasants and increased deliveries to the central government." Their hiding for the true claim caused Mao even impossible to realize and believe what really happened in the countryside. Their false reports made "China ... ...

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