Word: fujian
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...Fujian has eyes for Taiwan and for its native sons overseas
...beautiful land of rugged green hills and rich farm land, with a long, spectacular coastline, Fujian province faces Taiwan, 90 miles away across the Taiwan Strait. Closed to most non-Chinese for more than three decades, Fujian has been reopened both to foreign visitors and to foreign investment. TIME Peking Bureau Chief Richard Bernstein last week toured the provincial capital of Fuzhou and the port city of Xiamen (Amoy). His report...
These two angry men are among the 221,000 refugees from Viet Nam who have been resettled on state farms; 78,000 in Guangxi province, 27,000 in Yunnan and others scattered in Guangdong and Fujian provinces. Thirty thousand more are in refugee camps near the Viet Nam border waiting for places in permanent settlement areas...
...export-minded Japanese, the prospect of another revaluation of the yen, which would raise the price of the country's goods in foreign markets, looms as a threat of almost Fujian financial proportions. Japanese products, after all, lost some of their competitive edge in last year's Smithsonian monetary realignments, during which the yen was revalued against the dollar by more (16.89%) than any other currency. Japanese businessmen want to avoid another such jolt at all costs. As a result Japan's trading partners, who have long sought to reason and cajole Tokyo into removing some...
...party set itself an ambitious goal-to take over the government by 1970. The main tactic was to expand the party's membership from a paltry 50,000, mostly drawn from trade unions, to a reasonably broad 500,000. The campaign proved a disaster of Fujian proportions. The old dogmas were not softened one whit. What is more, some new proposals-including one for an ultra-pacifist nonaggression pact with Washington, Moscow and Peking-so alarmed some members that they stopped paying their dues. The party...