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China Today 1959 No. 19

Peking acquires a new look -- Spring comes to Yuman Kuan -- First big electronic computer -- First-year pupils -- Native products from the Chang Pai Mountains. Features charting the "Great Leap Forward". Footage includes new municipal buildings and factories in Beijing; new oil refineries bring prosperity to the desert city of Yuman Kuan; the first high speed computer being installed in the Institute Of Computation at the Academy Of Sciences; the first day of a new school year in a village on the outskirts of Beijing; the breeding of rare animals (sable, beaver and deer) and the cultivation of medicinal herbs (ginseng) for scientific research at the Institute of Special Products.
Complete catalog record
Alternate title: China Today 1959 No. 51. English.
Original source: Archive Reference: N-507740. | Production Company: The Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of the People's Republic of China. | Reproduction of: China Today 1959 No. 51 China, 1959. 16mm Comb BW pos. | The British Film Institute
Release: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
Physical description: 1 online resource (video file 0:09:29) : sound, black and white.
Subjects: Towns and cities | Museums | Factories | Urban development | Industry | Oil | Computing | Technology | Schools | Education | Children | Teachers | Gardening | Cultivation | Animals | Wildlife and nature | 1954-1975 | Peking (Beijing) | Changbai Mountains | Jilin Province | China | Newsreel/Cinemagazine

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