Word: henan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...responsibility system has reduced the power of autocratic local leaders so that now, reports the People's Daily, there is "less scolding and beating of commune members, less giving of blind directions and forced commands, and less wandering about without taking part in physical labor." In north-central Henan province, according to the People's Daily, the peasants' enthusiasm for private production has led them to buy fertilizer with the money they had set aside for their daughters' dowries or even for their own coffins...
...peddler who lives in a rural area of Henan province claims that at each of three baptizing ceremonies in his commune over the past year, "300 to 400 people became Christians." The man belongs to a loose network of "house churches," which are growing rapidly, especially in farm villages...
Over the course of last year, Sichuan province, Deng's home, emerged as a national model for China and Zhao, 61, as a model bureaucrat. Zhao had been denounced during the Cultural Revolution as a "stinking landlord element" (his father had been a landowner in Henan province) and was paraded down the streets of Canton in 1967 with a dunce cap on his head, a type of experience he shared with a number of other Chinese leaders. He disappeared for four years; then, in 1975, after serving in both Inner Mongolia and Guangdong province party posts, he was sent...