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People and publishing in China

AUG 01, 1979
Education and research, after having been neglected during the Cultural Revolution, are once again receiving emphasis, aided by extensive reading and reprinting of Western scientific literature.
H. William Koch

The People’s Republic of China, established by Mao Zedong in 1949, is the world’s largest nation—900 million people—in an economy that is mainly agricultural and in which 80% of the people work on farms. It is a country of ancient tradition and enviable self‐sufficiency that is reluctantly entering its industrial revolution. It is a country that US physicists and astronomers should attempt to understand as they establish channels of communications with the scientists of that country.

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H. William Koch, American Institute of Physics.

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