Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Three Years of Natural Disasters (三年自然灾害/三年自然災害) refers to the period in the People's Republic of China between 1959 and 1961. It was the last famine China had, after thousands of years of famines, including one during the 1940s, prior to communist rule. See also: Great Leap Forward (1958-1960) This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.