1958 The second session of the Eighth National Congress of communist party, China adopted the general line of "go all out, strive for the upper reaches, and build socialism quickly and well".

Go all out and strive for the upper reaches;

In order to lead the all-round development of socialist construction, the CPC Central Committee formally formulated the general line of socialist construction in 1958. The brewing of the general line of socialist construction began with the new slogan "How to save more quickly" put forward by Mao Zedong at the Third Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Mao Zedong is dissatisfied that the slogan "The sooner the better" is no longer mentioned after the anti-aggression campaign of 1956.

At the closing meeting of the Third Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee on June 9th, 1957, 10, Mao Zedong put forward the slogan of "how to save as soon as possible", which was responded by the participants.

1958 on new year's day, people's daily published an editorial entitled "braving the wind and waves", which once again emphasized the policy of saving as quickly as possible and put forward the slogan of "go all out and strive for the upper reaches" These two slogans caught Mao Zedong's attention. During the period of 1958, the Central Committee held a working meeting in Chengdu. In his speech and interjections at the meeting, Mao Zedong repeatedly raised the issue of the general line of socialist construction.

He called it the general line and said, "Be quick, save, work hard and strive for the upper reaches". From May 5 to 23, the second session of the Eighth National Congress of communist party, China was held in Beijing. The meeting formally formulated the general line of "working hard, striving for the upper reaches and building socialism quickly and well".

The general line of socialist construction reflects the thinking and understanding of the CPC Central Committee and Mao Zedong on exploring the road of socialist construction suitable for China's national conditions. It reflects the general desire of the party and the broad masses of the people to change China's backward economic and cultural situation.

In the explanation of the general line in the work report of the Second National Congress of the Eighth National Congress, it is emphasized that all positive factors should be mobilized to correctly handle contradictions among the people, and it is pointed out that the main task of the party is to carry out socialist construction and carry out technological and cultural revolutions, which should be affirmed.

However, because this general line was formed in the process of criticizing and opposing rashness, and it was formulated under the guidance of impetuous rashness, it has serious defects.

This mainly emphasizes the development speed of economic construction unilaterally, exaggerates the subjective will and the role of subjective efforts, and ignores the objective laws that economic construction must follow and the principle of acting according to one's abilities and seeking truth from facts.