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...also be true that China's stocks of resources are vast--in oil, for example, the Pohai Gulf, the grand Daqing field and other "new finds" in Harbin--but China must still look outside for the methods to recover its materials. Once thought to be the solution to China's technology problems, joint ventures--in which Western nations supplied the expertise and technology and the Chinese supplied the raw goods--have fallen on hard times. The Chinese have proved willing to share the wealth, but not always to the satisfaction of foreign firms. And once the plants have been constructed...
...problems of industrializing a country so primitively equipped are huge. China's gross national product was only $373 billion in 1977, compared to $1.889 trillion for the U.S. The Chinese per capita income was a lamentable $378. A generator plant in Harbin uses lathes, punch presses and milling machines that were built two and three decades ago in Czechoslovakia, East Germany and the Soviet Union. Japan builds 94 cars per worker per year; in China the comparable figures are one car, one worker. Steel, the essential building component for heavy industry, is regarded as a precious metal in China...
...taught in universities in this country because it was considered theoretical rather than practical and because it was supposedly 'invented by foreigners.' " Though such obscurantism is no longer official policy, there remains a woeful lack of teachers and teaching aids. During Schlesmger's tour of the Harbin Polytechnic Institute, Correspondent Talbott saw one class assembling primitive watches and another studying the inner workings of antique radios made with vacuum tubes rather than transistors...
Miller was an early success. Born in Sapulpa, Okla., he received a degree in marine engineering from the Coast Guard Academy in 1945 and was stationed in Shanghai. There, in 1946, he met and married his wife Ariadna, of Russian parentage, who had lived in Harbin, Manchuria. In 1952, he received a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley and settled in as an attorney at Cravath, Swaine and Moore, the prestigious Wall Street law firm. While there he became friendly with Royal Little, the New England businessman who was putting together Textron, one of the first conglomerates...
...reporters dismiss the Peking corps' output as mainly "sights, sounds and smells." Yet, as Burns points out, there is a wide market for atmospheric human-interest tales. Thus Burns recently filed a poignant portrait of an elderly White Russian émigré in the remote northern city of Harbin. Last spring he ran in Peking's annual seven-mile "round the city" foot race, finishing 1,165th in a field of 1,500. But it made a good story...