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China leaps forward in 60 years

Beijing : China | about 1 month ago  
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When Chinese leader Mao Zedong declared in 1949 that China had stood up, the world's most populous nation was an agrarian society still trying to recover from the devastation of its civil war. For over two decades, Maoist China tried to break away from its feudal past by putting in place communal...
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