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China Today 1959 No. 24

National Agricultural Exhibition Hall -- The Second Yangtze River Bridge -- Conquering the desert -- Peking's new railway station -- Serving the herdsmen -- Chenille velvet birds. Footage includes: the interior and exterior of the new National Agricultural Exhibition Hall, with footage of some of the displays; residents planting trees to create a barrier between the desert, its sandstorms, and their crops in Minqin County, Gansu Province; the facilities for passengers in the new station building at Peking; mobile vendors bring practical and cultural goods to groups of remote herdsmen in Gansu Province; artists making decorative velvet birds and animals.
Complete catalog record
Alternate title: China Today No. 56
Original source: Archive Reference: N-507812. | Production Company: The Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of the People's Republic of China. | Reproduction of: China, 1959. 16mm Comb BW pos. | The British Film Institute
Release: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
Physical description: 1 online resource (video file 0:11:01) : sound, black and white.
Subjects: Exhibition | Agriculture and farming | Rivers | Construction | Climate | Aircraft | Railways | Transport | Communication | Rural communities | Consumerism | Traditional dance | Arts and culture | Crafts | Co-operatives | 1954-1975 | Peking (Beijing) | Chongqing | Minqin County | Gansu Province | China | Newsreel/Cinemagazine

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