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Contribute our Youth to Spread the Spirit of Dazha

poster by Xu Xi, depicting smiling young workers constructing a dam, the ten characters displayed on the sign in the background reading 'Strive for building another Dazhai County', 1055 x 775 mm., a small loss at lower left sheet edge, Beijing, The People's Fine Art Publishing House, 1975.

***Dazhai, Shanxi province, was a model of rural development. It had been an ordinary village until the 1960s, when Mao published his Supreme Directive, "Learn from Dazhai in agriculture". Afterwards, newspaper and magazine stories, books and films were produced nationwide to promote how hard and diligently the villagers of Dazhai managed the fields to produce bountiful crops, and engineered the construction of reservoirs and aqueducts across deep valleys for irrigation..

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