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China Today 1955 No. 7

Building the Lion Shoals Hydroelectric Station -- Bridge engineering works turn out new products -- New life on the grasslands -- Where the blind see again -- Shatterproof glass -- A worker's sanatorium -- Cross-country motorcycle race. Footage includes the construction of the largest of four hydroelectric power stations in Eastern Szechwan Province; the assembly shop at a steel-frame bridge building plant; travelling mounted medical teams visiting nomadic people and a maternity hospital in Inner Mongolia; experiments in cornea transplants at a People's hospital; the manufacture of a new type of shatterproof safety glass mass produced for the first time in China; a lakeside health resort built as a rest home and medical centre becomes the largest workers' sanatorium; young men from the Central National Defence Athletic Club in training for a cross-country motorcycle race.
Complete catalog record
Original source: The British Film Institute | Archive Reference: N-507377. | Reproduction of: China, 1955. 16mm Comb BW pos. | Production Company: Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio, Peking.
Release: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
Physical description: 1 online resource (video file 0:10:04) : sound, black and white | monochrome
Subjects: Hydroelectric power stations | Rivers | Dams | Engineering | Workers | Health and medicine | Hospitals | Maternity | Rural communities | Medical practitioners | Animals | Experiments | Surgery | Manufacturing | Industry | Resorts and spas | Competition | Sports and games | Sichuan Province | Shanghai | Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region | Liuzhou | Guangxi Province | Yunnan Province | China | Newsreel/Cinemagazine | 1954-1975 | Webcast

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