Mao’s China · TURNING POINT ·
Daqing oilfield (1959–64)
On the Mao’s China map as “Daqing”
1959–64 — The great oilfield found in 1959 on the Heilongjiang plain is developed in the early 1960s by workers living in earth dugouts; its model worker, “Iron Man” Wang Jinxi, becomes a national hero. Daqing ended China’s need for Soviet oil and became Dazhai’s industrial twin: “In industry, learn from Daqing.”
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- Recovery after the Great Leap (chapter 8 of Mao’s China)
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- The People’s Republic under Mao, 1949–1976
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