Mao’s China · TURNING POINT ·
Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge (1957)
15 Oct 1957 — The first bridge over the Yangtze, built in two years with Soviet engineers, joins the Beijing and Guangzhou railways into one line; until then every train between north and south crossed by ferry. Mao swam the river below its unfinished piers in June 1956 and wrote a poem about the bridge.
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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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