In addition, due to Chinese Communists" enamouring of Stalin, Lysenko's pseudoscience and Stalin's collectivization techniques were launched in China without any examination, which brought China disastrous results. .
Mao's fundamental ignorance of modern science not only emerged at his agricultural policies, but also at his personal ideology and his economical policy. A very curious situation appeared that intellectuals inside and outside the party were sent to factories, communes, mines, and public works projects for manual labor in order to transform their stubbornly reactionary thinking. Instead, illiberal workers took in charge the factories as managers. In addition, Mao always overestimated man's power. He believed that the steel output was the mainly index to scale the level of industrial development and its high production could be achieved through sheer determination and physical effort. He promised that his plan to leap into communism in only five or ten years could be accomplished simply by the sustaining mobilization of masses. .
During 1950s and 1960s, the personality cult around Mao reached grotesque heights: .
"Mao was an infallible semi-divine being". Mao was compared to the sun and people believed in what Mao said. Therefore, under Mao's belief and vocation, in the atmosphere of cult of Mao, people feverishly drove into a massive steel production. "The entire country, from peasants in remote villages to top Party officials in Zhongnanhai, set up smelters day and night in 1958 and 1959 to create steel in backyard furnaces". Consequent catastrophic results came out soon. The great harvest in 1958 was not being gathered and crops were left to rot in the fields due to lack of labor. The seeds began to die due to incorrect planting instruction. However, "peasants were encouraged to eat as much as they could" in the communes. Thus, rather than growing more grain, Mao's agricultural policies led to a substantial decline in grain yields.
