Word: yunnan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From these strongholds the guerrillas fan out across the country for swift strikes against Vietnamese army outposts and supply routes. One broadcast by a clandestine Khmer Rouge radio station ?probably located in China's Yunnan province?claimed that several Cuban and Soviet advisers had been killed in a Phnom-Penh airport ambush...
These two angry men are among the 221,000 refugees from Viet Nam who have been resettled on state farms; 78,000 in Guangxi province, 27,000 in Yunnan and others scattered in Guangdong and Fujian provinces. Thirty thousand more are in refugee camps near the Viet Nam border waiting for places in permanent settlement areas...
China has not found it easy to absorb the refugees. Said a resettlement aide in Yunnan: "Grain, meat and edible oils - these are already rationed in our country - so you can imagine the burden on the farms imposed by this huge influx of new people." The Chinese claim that finding a home for each refugee costs $1,200, a figure that covers the purchase of transportation, agricultural tools, housing and food. As a result, Peking has taken the unprecedented step of asking the U.N. for financial help in resettling the refugees who are still in the camps and those...
Refugees from Vietnamese cities like Hanoi and Haiphong find life on state farms distinctly unpleasant. "Some of them stay at home rather than go into the fields," said Yao Bosheng, an official of Yunnan province's refugee settlement office. On the Hung Ho state farm in the lush Red River valley, 523 refugees, out of a total population of 2,000, are work ing the sugarcane, rice, banana and pineapple fields. Though some refugees have been housed in brick barracks, with one family to each large room, many others live in temporary, ramshackle shelters made of bamboo and straw...
...moves by Chinese authorities to extend the hand of recognition to China's Christians and other religious believers. In January the Religious Affairs Bureau, dormant for years, was revived in Peking, along with units in Shanghai and Canton. In February a national-level conference in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, established an eight-year plan for government-sponsored academic research on religion. Shanghai's Catholic Bishop Gong Binmei (Kung Pin-mei), 77, and Protestant Evangelist Wang Mingdao (Wang Ming-tao), 79, both imprisoned for over 20 years, have reportedly been released. The People's Daily declared that...