Industrial production crashed during the cultural revolution because the Red Guards were assigned leadership posts.
Red Guards were a mass student-led paramilitary social movement mobilized and led by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the first phase of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
The Cultural Revolution was launched by Mao Zedong seeking to preserve Chinese Communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society, as well as to re-impose Mao Zedong Thought as the dominant ideology of the Party.
