Taichai: Standard Bearer in China's Agriculture (3).

Taichai: Standard Bearer in China's Agriculture. Paperback booklet published by Foreign Languages Press 1972, 29 pages. All text is in English.

In ten years of hard battle, the peasants put in 80,000 workdays and finally succeeded in turning the barren hill-slopes into terraced fields.

A walking-tractor ploughing the land. Tachai is well on the way to farm mechanization and electrification.

Fertilizer being hauled uphill by electrically operated cables.

Tachai has reaped abundant harvest for ten years running. Commune members are piling up the maze.