August 17, 1958, three days of July (the Reform Movement), the adoption of the resolution to establish people's communes in rural central.

1958 8 17, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee enlarged meeting held in Beidaihe. The end of the 30th. The meeting discussed the plan of the national economy, industrial production, agricultural production, rural work, commercial work, education policy and other issues. After the meeting, in order to pursue the production of steel double than in 1957, reaching 10.7 million tons, the battle together tens of millions of people in the country, indigenous Western Simultaneous launched, set off an unprecedented scale "universal big way steel sports" . The Conference adopted a resolution to establish people's communes in rural, decided to set up around near a senior agricultural production cooperatives, generally upgraded to a large-scale, political and social unity of the people's communes. From August to October, the country's 740,000 agricultural production cooperatives merged into the more than 26,000 people's communes, the National Rural basically achieve the people's communes.