Rural poverty is a problem
For well over a decade, the Dazhai production brigade in China's Shanxi province was the object of nothing less than a cult. The small, 40-family work unit, whose herculean labors were said to have produced astounding grain yields on steep hills, was held up as a model for all of rural China. LEARN FROM DAZHAI was the slogan that covered walls and farm buildings from northeastern Heilongjiang province to Yunnan in the southwest.
Now Peking has begun to disclose that Dazhai may have been no more than a Potemkin façade. In a rare exposé, the People's Daily reported...
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