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China Today 1959 No. 20

Lanchow - Ever lovelier -- Chemical Industry Centre on Sungari River -- Countryside interlaced with canals -- Artificial wool -- Happy old age -- Women parachutists set new world records. Footage includes new factories being built in the ancient city of Lanchow; the construction of chemical plants along the banks of the Sungari river; a network of new canals brings prosperity to a village; the manufacture of artificial wool at the Experimental Synthetic Fibre Plant in Shanghai; life at the No. 1 Home for the Aged in Beijing; a parachuting competition at the 1st National Games in Beijing.
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Alternate title: China Today 1959 No. 52. English.
Original source: Archive Reference: N-507741. | Production Company: The Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of the People's Republic of China. | Reproduction of: China Today 1959 No. 52 China, 1959. 16mm Comb BW pos. | The British Film Institute
Release: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
Physical description: 1 online resource (video file 0:10:32) : sound, black and white.
Subjects: Towns and cities | Factories | Construction | Industry | Chemistry | Irrigation | Water | Cultivation | Crops | Textiles | Laboratory tests | Clothing | Elderly people | Health and medicine | Leisure | Socialism | Women | Parachute jumping | Competition | 1954-1975 | Lanzhou | Shanghai | Peking (Beijing) | China | Anhui Province | Newsreel/Cinemagazine

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