1957年11月,毛泽东在苏联莫斯科会议上提出了中国“超英赶美”的目标。当11月13日《人民日报》的社论中提出“在生产战线上来个大跃进”时,毛泽东颇为赞赏地说:“自从‘跃进’这个口号提出以后,反冒进论者闭口无言了。……如果要颁发博士头衔的话,我建议第一号博士赠予发明这个伟大口号的那一位(或者几位)科学家。” In November 1957, Mao Zedong put forward the goal of “super-Britain and the United States” at the Soviet Moscow meeting. When the editorial in the People’s Daily on 13 November proposed that “there be a big leap forward in the production front,” Mao Zedong said with appreciable degree: “Since the slogan of ’leap forward’ was proposed, the anti-pro-imperialist closed his mouth I would suggest Dr. No. 1 give that one (or several) scientists who invented this great slogan. ”