New China (24)

New China. Hardcover book published by Foreign Languages Press 1953, unpaginated with black and white photographs. All text is in English.

With the assistance of the People’s Government, silkworm production in 1952 topped 1950 by 50 per cent

About 60,800,000 pigs are now being raised in China. Measures to improve breeds increase the number of livestock throughout the countryside

Since the land reform, more peasants have begun to raise poultry as a side-line. Egg exports in 1951 amounted to 70,000 metric tons