Word: sikang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also present impressive evidence of what a slave economy can do: the roads took 3½ years to build; their combined length (2,722 miles) is almost twice as long as China's ancient Great Wall and more than three times as long as the Burma Road. The Sikang-Tibet Highway runs 1,410 miles across 14 mountain ranges and 100 rivers, at one point traversing a staggering series of 2,600-ft. precipices. Chinese Nationalist sources acknowledged the achievement, but preferred to stress its human cost-an estimated 50,000 out of 500,000 road workers dead from...
Proclaimed Radio Peking: "People's (i.e., Chinese Communist] Army units ... have been ordered to advance into Tibet to free 3,000,000 Tibetans from imperialist oppression and to consolidate national defense of the western borders of China . . ." The Red army was striking from Sikang and Tsinghai provinces, in China's far west, toward the formidable 15,000-ft. passes into the bleak Tibetan plateau...