United embracing the struggle of the revolution (1973)

Created 2-May-11

Modified 11-Jun-24

19 photos

The theme of this series is the united struggle to enact the directives of the tenth general party assembly; each segment of society (especially the youths), and each minority, is asked to contribute to Mao's vision of production, practice and research.

The date of this set of propaganda exhibition photographs is December 1973. Note that #19 is missing.

Epson scanner 4990, processed in Lightroom 3.2

Thomas H. Hahn
Ithaca, NY

Political instruction at the Tianjin nr.1 steel mill

Studying communist propaganda at a people's commune in Chuansha county, Shanghai

Demonstration re the party's strategy for agricultural production increases (Chaoyang qu, Beijing)

40% increase of grain production for 1973 at a commune in Yutai county, Shandong

The local party secretary leading the struggle on the ground (Hui county, Henan)

Cotton production in the Shijiazhuang area, Hebei

Youths being send down to assist in developing the countryside (Haiyang county, Shandong)

Women of the Yao and Zhuang minorities working in the fields in Du'an, Guangxi

Discussing Dazhai production principles as far away as in Naqu county, Tibet

Steel production at a steel mill in Wuhan (Hubei)

Party secretary on inspection tour at a Shanghai garment and underwear factory

Workers at the model oil drilling facility Daqing, Xinjiang

Carrying the struggle of the revolution into the Kailan mines

Installing a transformer unit in the Yi minority area of southern Sichuan

Fertilizer factory in Changtai county, Fujian

Instructing young workers at a cotton spinnery in Nantong county, Jiangsu

China's first computer capable of processing one million operations per second (Beijing)

Alert [multi-ethnic] border militias keeping watch against imperialist forces