Crops Suffer In China
(N-Z.P.A.-Reuter— Copyright) HONG KONG, October 2.
r, 7 ?®,. f eking “People’s Daily, official organ of the Chinese Communist Party, has admitted for the first time that “grave natural calamities occurring for three successive years . . . resulted in reduction of agricultural output.”
In an editorial quoted yesterday by the official New China News Agency, the newspaper said: “The reduction in output of grain, industrial crops and subsidiary rural products affected the production of both light industry and heavy industry and consequently commodity supplies and the people's livelihood.”
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29635, 4 October 1961, Page 17
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