The Great Leap Forward (GLF) took place in 1958. The Great Leap Forward planned to develop agriculture and industry. Mao believed that both had to grow to allow the other to grow. Industry could only prosper if the workforce was well-fed, while the agricultural workers needed industry to produce the modem tools needed for modernisation. To allow this, China was reformed into a series of communes in rural areas and backyard production method for industrialising the country.