China Today 1960 No. 20

Chairman Mao receives Mexican general, Jara -- Iron and steel output soars -- Active support to agriculture -- High-grade musical instruments produced -- Peasant parachutists. Footage includes: Chairman Mao greets General Jara of the Mexican National Peace Council and magazine editor Jose Rosalez at an informal reception; the construction of small iron and steel blast furnaces throughout China as part of a production drive; road and waterway mobile engineering units, which travel the countryside repairing and servicing farm machinery, and also instructing the farm workers in servicing their own machinery; the mass production of hand-made violins and accordions in a workshop in Shanghai; young peasants make their first parachute jump as part of their training in forest protection at the Inner Mongolian Air Forestry Patrol Station.
Complete catalog record
Alternate title: China Today No. 76
Original source: The British Film Institute | Archive Reference: N-507988. | Reproduction of: China, 1960. 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 0:10:45) : sound, black and white | monochrome
Subjects: Diplomacy | Politics | Iron | Steel | Industry | Productivity | Mass production | Agricultural machinery | Mechanical engineering | Training | Peasants | Music | Workers | Parachute jumping | Youth culture | Rural communities | Shandong Province | Shanghai | Heilongjiang Province | Peking (Beijing) | China | Mao Zedong (1893-1976) | Newsreel/Cinemagazine | 1954-1975 | Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976 | Webcast

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