Mao’s China · TURNING POINT ·
Learn from Dazhai campaign (1964)
On the Mao’s China map as “Dazhai”
Dec 1964 — This hill brigade in Shanxi, which terraced its gullies by collective labour under Chen Yonggui, is held up as the national model: “In agriculture, learn from Dazhai.” Its achievements were partly real and partly inflated, with state help kept quiet; it remained the model of politics-first farming until 1980.
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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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