Date: 1958
Title: The Great Leap Forward, China, 1958
Theme: Photo-Essay: The Great Leap Forward, China. 1958
Map: Asia
Title: The Great Leap Forward, China, 1958
Theme: Photo-Essay: The Great Leap Forward, China. 1958
Map: Asia
Work study programs are an integral part of China’s student life. In Shenyang’s engineering school, constructed in 1950, the girl at this lathe and six thousand other students study and produce for five years under eighty teachers. Lack of scientists, engineers and technicians is one of Mao Tse-tung’s toughest problems in pushing ahead on the industrialization of the land.

