Word: kansu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twenty-eight smaller dams have already been built on the Yellow and its tributaries, and 31 others are in progress. The Reds also plan to attack the Yellow with two other mammoth reservoirs at Liukia Gorge in Kansu Province and Lungyang Gorge in Tsinghai Province. They are due to be completed...
...First Field Army (about 280,000) garrisons China's northwest, stretching from Kansu province to the distant Sinkiang border of Russian Kazakstan. Its boss is wily General Peng Teh-huai. A politician as well as soldier, Peng is also deputy to Chu Teh, the Red army's commander in chief; he and Chu are the only generals on the five-man secretariat that administers the Chinese Communist Party machine...