Word: lanzhou
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other key players in the power struggle, remained out of sight even longer. During this period of uncertainty, solid information was the scarcest of commodities in China, and wild rumors abounded. There were even reports that Deng was fleeing into retirement in the U.S. Protesters in Shanghai, Xian and Lanzhou staged memorial services for Beijing hunger strikers, although none had died. "People are learning about major government changes and about the biggest student movement in China's history from Popsicle sellers and newspaper dealers," said Zhang Weiguo, a reporter on Shanghai's World Economic Herald. "This...
...befits such grand expectations, the post-Mao leadership has also overhauled the structure of China's relations with the world. From the Daqing oilfields in the north to Canton in the south, from Shanghai in the east to sooty Lanzhou in the west, 1,600 foreign specialists are working to boost China's economy. Some 128 American firms have offices in Peking; this year trade between the U.S. and China will amount to $5.5 billion, a fiftyfold increase since 1972. Ten years ago, almost no Chinese were allowed to go overseas; today there are 10,000 students...