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...Certain comrades lack a practical spirit, do not take into account their resources and strength in drawing up plans, and proceed only from subjective aspirations." In a speech at Peking last week, Vice Chairman Chia Tofu of the government's Economic and Financial Committee confessed: "On the whole, our industrial foundations are very weak and our industrial technique backward." Sixty per cent of all Chinese industry is now state-owned, Chia boasted, but obviously the state is having a hard time finding managers who know their jobs. Chia announced a new set of production goals, but did not compare...
...hand-to-mouth nature of the entire industrialization program. Besides sloppy planning, the People's Daily admitted poor designing, serious shortages of skilled labor, general delays in delivery (presumably from Russia), and what was called "poor geological data." The pattern of cuts in mineral production and Chia's announcement of a 500% increase in "prospecting and development operations" indicates that China is a long way from getting tooled for production. Light industry has not even announced its targets lor this year...
...Chun Chia Lin of Oakland, Calif., S.B. University of Calif., 1952, (Chemistry...
...night his mission reached the capital, tired and travel-stained, the ambassador received an abrupt summons from Emperor Chia Ch'ing: appear immediately at the imperial residence. Amherst stood on his dignity and refused, pleading first fatigue, then illness. The Emperor promptly sent a court physician who reported back that the Briton was malingering...
...Angrily, Chia Ch'ing ordered the mission to turn home without an audience...