Since 1959 in China, the lack of food in rural areas has caused serious difficulties in people's livelihood and severe famine in various places, which has led to a serious lag in industrial development. The content of the eight-character policy is to adjust, consolidate, enrich and improve, and the core is to adjust and adjust the proportional relationship in the national economy.
Under the specific guidance of the "eight-character policy", the economy gradually recovered and developed in 1962, the task of national economic adjustment was basically completed in 1965, and the scheduled task of national economic adjustment was basically completed in 1966, which enabled China's national economy to recover and develop.