The limits of technological self-reliance were demonstrated in China in the late 1950s when, during the Great Leap Forward, backyard iron smelters were set up—only to be dismantled when their products proved to be inferior. This line of smelters was built in a commune in Honan Province in 1958.
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Press, 17 January 1979, Page 14
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49The limits of technological self-reliance were demonstrated in China in the late 1950s when, during the Great Leap Forward, backyard iron smelters were set up—only to be dismantled when their products proved to be inferior. This line of smelters was built in a commune in Honan Province in 1958. Press, 17 January 1979, Page 14
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