Word: thatches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that might appear unremarkable; in China it is a veritable cornucopia of consumerism. Every family in the brigade possesses an alarm clock, 90% of the families have savings accounts. In the past two years 24 households have built solid brick and tile houses to replace their old mud-and-thatch homes, compared with the 28 years before, when only seven such houses were constructed. "All the peasants feel happy," says Chen Quanchun, 37, the brigade's leader. "They work twice as hard as they used to because they know that if they work harder, they can make more money...
...scene is like a calendar photograph displaying the splendors of rural life. At the Jin Ma (Golden Horse) commune on the lush Chengdu Plain of Sichuan province, the well-watered rice fields are emerald green. Thatch houses are surrounded by luxuriant clumps of bamboo and persimmon. Hundreds of teen-agers work at a prosperous collective silk-spinning plant near by. The peasants have radios, watches, bicycles, money in the bank, food on the table. Some of them treasure framed red certificates, whose bold black characters commend them for having achieved "wealth through diligent labor." Clearly, the Jin Ma commune...