Mao’s China · TURNING POINT ·
Third Front at Panzhihua (1965)
On the Mao’s China map as “Panzhihua”
1965 — Under the Third Front, a steel city is built from nothing in the gorges of south-western Sichuan, chosen because its iron ore lay far from any coast or border an enemy could reach. Workers and whole factories are moved inland to build it; the Chengdu–Kunming railway that serves it opens in 1970.
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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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