Word: gansu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among other cases reported yesterday, the vice chair of the commodity prices committee in western Gansu province was expelled from the party for making $170,000 by profiteering in sugar...
...Another Gansu official was punished for using public funds to buy a private home and a third sold state-supplied medicine and used the money to hold an elaborate funeral for his wife...
...will face more than tummy aches. Two have already died. In 1975-76 a similar flower-and-die disaster involving the umbrella bamboo, which is in a different growth cycle, led to the deaths by starvation of 138 animals in a panda habitat on the border of Sichuan and Gansu provinces...
...startling revelation in a series of remarkably candid press stories in recent months is that in three decades of rule, the Communist regime has barely begun to improve the lot of a vast number of its peasants. Some regions in the chronically poor provinces such as hilly Guizhou, arid Gansu or often flooded Shandong have not had a single good year since collectivization began in the late 1950s. According to one article, a quarter of the rural population, or roughly 200 million people, had 1977 per capita incomes of less than $27 a .year, not enough even to buy sufficient...