By You-Li Sun
Dan Ling, a patriotic younger engineer wanting to aid construct a brand new China, falls afoul of the specialists and spends 17 years as a political prisoner. Rehabilitated after Deng Xiaoping got here to energy, Dan returns to paintings with unflagging selection to aid offer an excellent existence for himself and his humans after enduring felony, paintings camps and paintings farms, and the primitive lif e of the social outcast breaking new flooring at the frozen northern frontier. Youli sunlight is Director of yankee University's Beijing application. He holds a PhD from the college of Chicago and did post-doctoral reports at Washington college; he's a expert in American diplomatic background, smooth chinese language background, and US-East Asian kin.
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Food staples, such as wheat and corn flour, meat, eggs, vegetables, and chicken were cheap and plentiful. 20 yuan at the factory cafeteria. 8 or so yuan; Dan often treated his subordinates to dinner. There were also plenty of cloth and clothing, too. Dan could buy everything he needed. There were no medical or housing expenses. Dan was truly enjoying life. It also seemed that the CCP was doing a very good job of organizing people according to their talents and abilities in order to build a successful society.
He organized a mobilization rally to drum up enthusiasm. S. industrial development in fifteen years. Chen ordered every section of the factory to assign a specific number of people to finish the given quotas. Against this backdrop, Dan was appointed assistant head of the iron producing team for the Assembly Section. The section’s party secretary was from a Mongolian minority tribe and ill-qualified for such work. Instead, the general manager, Old Jiang, was chosen to head the operation. At about forty years old, Old Jiang was an experienced technician, skilled at repairing automobiles and tanks.
The government provided housing not just for officials and technicians like Dan, but for most employees. There were different levels of housing benefits according to one’s ranks and marital status. With marriage, Dan would be entitled to a tworoom apartment. Instead, he went to share a room with two other engineers who were also single. Most workers were normally given one room, if they were married; dozens of singles had to share a big room. By the end of the Anti-Hu Feng Campaign in late 1955, the construction of the tank factory was completed.