Editing Great Leap Forward (section)

=== Cultural impact ===
Consistent with the Great Leap Forward in agriculture and industry, authorities promoted the New Folksong Movement and the Peasant Painting Movement, from which hundreds of thousands of new artists emerged. Through the New Folksong Movement, millions of new folk songs and poems were written and collected. As part of the Peasant Painting Movement, peasant artists decorated village walls with Great Leap Forward-themed murals.{{sfnp|Qian|2024|p=167}}

The Great Leap Forward also prompted a wave of the New ''[[Guohua]]'' Campaign in which the state commissioned landscape artists to paint new production projects; select paintings of the campaign were taught in schools, published widely as propaganda posters, exhibited in museums, and used as the backdrops of state events.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Laikwan |first=Pang |title=One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty |publisher=[[Stanford University Press]] |year=2024 |isbn=9781503638815 |pages=138 |doi=10.1515/9781503638822}}</ref>

On 9 March 1958, the [[Ministry of Culture (China)|Ministry of Culture]] held a meeting to introduce a Great Leap Forward in [[Cinema of China|cinema]]. During the Great Leap Forward, the film industry rapidly expanded, with documentary films being the genre that experienced the greatest growth. The total number of film-screening venues, including both urban cinemas and mobile projection units which traveled through rural China, radically increased.{{sfnp|Qian|2024|pp=149–150}}