Mao’s China · TURNING POINT ·
First Automobile Works (1956)
13 Jul 1956 — The first Jiefang (“Liberation”) truck, a copy of the Soviet ZIS-150, leaves the line in Changchun, in a plant the Soviets designed and equipped. China had never made a motor vehicle before. The Plan put its showpieces in the north-east, nearest the Soviet railway and the old Japanese industrial base.
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- China’s First Five-Year Plan (chapter 4 of Mao’s China)
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- The People’s Republic under Mao, 1949–1976
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