Word: sichuan
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...stir city people into accepting the new system and to forestall conservative party bosses from crippling it, Peking is pushing the Sichuan city of Chongqing, one of the largest metropolises in China, as a kind of municipal role model. Buying from whatever domestic or international markets they choose, Chongqing's leaders in the past year have doubled business activity. If such reforms can succeed in Chongqing, the government seems to be saying, they can work anywhere in China...
Standing erect in an open-roofed Hongqi (Red Flag) limousine, Deng slowly rode along rows of troops, barking out in his heavy Sichuan accent the ritual greeting of the People's Liberation Army, "Hello, comrades!" followed by "You are working hard!" Back came the soldiers' enthusiastic responses, "Hello, Commander!" and "Serve the people...
Even before Deng effectively assumed power in January 1979, he began to experiment with a "contract" system of incentives for farmers. In just three years, that scheme boosted agricultural production in Sichuan province by 25% and industrial output by 80%. Encouraged by those startling results, Deng soon began replacing the Maoist commune, an unwieldy aggregation that often included tens of thousands of peasants, with a system of smaller economic units, sometimes no larger than a household...
Zhao comes calling on the U.S. "There is a saying," Premier Zhao Ziyang once remarked of his agricultural experiments in China's Sichuan province, " 'When you cross the river, you grope for the stones' But you must cross the river. You cannot just jump over it." This week Zhao will apply that delicate maxim to the troubled waters of Chinese-U.S. relations, which until three months ago were in their most turbulent state since Richard Nixon's opening to China in 1972. As he left Peking for his first visit to the U.S. and talks...
...through the streets of Canton in a dunce's cap and denounced as "a stinking remnant of the landlord class." He has come a long way from that parade, and in the process has effected a more substantive revolution of his own. His agricultural reforms as governor of Sichuan (among them: allowing peasants to keep some profits) increased productivity by 25%. They were subsequently adopted for the nation as a whole...