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...tight exchange regulations aimed at halting the flight of capital. He was partially successful. After two straight years in which G.N.P. had declined an average 4.6%, the government reported that output in 1964 rose 8.2%. In the process, however, wages and living costs both shot up 30%, while meat, grain and wool exporters began complaining that high production costs and an artificially low exchange rate made it almost impossible to compete in world markets...
...impossible to live in China for five years without picking up many Chinese social values. Waste of any kind is one of the worst sins there; math problems frequently take the form: "If every Chinese wasted one grain of rice each day and each grain of rice weighs one gram...." I learned to write on both sides of scratch paper before throwing it away and to use pencils until I could barely hold them. We always ate everything off our plates including the crust of rice around the edge of a bowl...
...years later the government proclaimed a national campaign to exterminate sparrows, one of the "four pests," (they eat many times their weight in grain each day) and Peking did its part in a one-day all-out effort. Early in the morning, the whole population started making noise and shooing sparrows. Every-where in the city, the sight of a single sparrow on a rooftop or in a tree was the signal for a tumult of shout, gongs and tin cans...
...came right up to them to wring their necks. One or two areas in the parks were deliberately left "quiet," and here an army of BB-gunners lay in ambush for the resting sparrow. Some of our British comrades demurred, of course, but the campaign saved many tons of grain for the Peking area...
...Manitoba has put up 40 buildings in ten years. Some of them are for a new University College based on Oxbridge, where each student wears a burgundy-colored robe and is assigned to a tutor. Manitoba's plant scientists are close to producing the first new species of grain developed by man: a combination of wheat...