Inside a People’s Commune: Report from Chiliying by Chu Li and Tien Chieh-yun (6).

Inside a People’s Commune: Report from Chiliying by Chu Li and Tien Chieh-yun. Paperback book published by Foreign Languages Press Peking 1974. All text is in English.

Peasant expert Li An-jen (left) and another commune member study insect pests in a cotton field. The commune’s research and technical services (including an effective pest-detection network) has spread scientific farming with fine results.

Workers of the commune’s farm machinery plant overhaul an insecticide duster for a brigade.

Lu Hsueh-jung (centre), one of the first graduates of the commune’s agro-technical school and now a visiting instructor, counsels her students after class.