三年“大跃进”使南阳专区非正常死亡和外逃人数多达上百万,其中仅1960年就锐减约70万人,为上年底总人口数的约11%。正由于此,1960年11月“民主革命补课运动”时,南阳是仅次于信阳的“重灾”地区,除由河南省委书记处书记杨蔚屏坐镇南阳指挥抓运动外,国务院也下派 In the three years of “Great Leap Forward,” the number of unnatural deaths and evasions in the Nanyang area reached as many as 1 million. Of these, only about 700,000 people dropped sharply in 1960, about 11% of the total population at the end of last year. Because of this, when Nanyang was second only to Xinyang in the “Rehabilitation Campaign” in November 1960, "Nanyang was under the command of secretary of Henan Provincial Party Committee Yang Weibing in charge of grasping the movement in Nanyang, and the State Council Also sent off