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McEWEN on CHINA

was able to see how closely
the congress deliberations cor-
responded to the wellbeing,
the hopes and the general out-
look of the common people,
for it was demonstrated to me
in many simple but very sig-
nificant ways in areas very
far apart.

In this and subsequent ar-
ticles I shall attempt to bring
to readers a picture of how
the 600 million people of China
live, what socialist construc-
tion means to them, some of
their great achievements, and
some of the tremendous prob-
lems they have still to face;
problems recognized alike by
the congress of their leading
party and by the humblest
citizen in the most remote vil-
lage.

In this tour of China I visited
seventeen principal cities, co-
operative and state farms, tex-
tile, steel, machine, shipbuild-
ing and other basic industries.

I also visited universities,
seeondary schools, kindergar-
tens, workers’ sanitoria, Mos-
lem, Buddhist and Lhama
places of worship, the Nan-
king Theological Seminary
(Protestant), classical and
modernist theatres and otHer
eentres of culture, and great
new hospitals built since the
liberation (1949).

In all these centres of in-
dustry, education, health and
culture. I met Communists,
non-party workers, members
of other -parties in the Peo-
ple’s government, and _liter-
ally thousands of plain ordin-
ary non-political people — the
people we call the “little” or
common folk in any country.

It is these people I would
like Canadians to know better,
simply because they have the
same hopes and the same de-
sires as the common folk of
our own country, to live and
work in peace and to enjoy
the wealth created by their
own labors.

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One of the first impressions
the foreign visitor gets in
China is the great dignity,
kindness and hospitality of
the Chinese people, , from
Chairman Mao Tse-tung down
to the humblest peasant. The
sceptic who might think this
hospitality is a “put on” show
to impress the visitor is
speedily set right by the same
hospitality and kindness at
the hands of the Chinese
peasant or villager.

China is an ancient land in
which the culture and dignity
of an old civilization, despite
all the ravages of modern im-
perialism, has been jealously

preserved. Thus one finds a
great dignity and _ kindness
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Another characteristic of the
Chinese people in showing the
foreign visitor around their
country is their insistence that
you see the bad as well as the
good; that you not only see
their. achievements of seven
years of socialist endeavor,
but that you also see the heri-
tage of an appalling poverty
left them from the Kuomin-
tang-imperialist-landlord era.

Thus one may ask a villager
just what the new People’s
government and _ 6 socialism
means to him, and get a reply
deeply significant in its grasp
of a new society.

“To me,” said one peasant
villager, “it means that new
water tap in the village. Be-
fore liberations we had to pay
the landlord a very heavy tax
for any water we used. Be-
cause we were too poor to
afford water we had to carry
our water from a contaminated
ditch a mile from the village.

“Every year many of our
villagers died from typhus and
cholera as a result of having
to use this contaminated water.
Now the government:has giv-
en us a water tap with pure
clean water. That to me is
socialism because all the vil-
lagers benefit.”

Next week I shall write of
a visit I made to the Norman
Bethune Memorial Hospital
at Chih-Chua Chuang and of a
great Canadian doctor who
has become a legendary fig-
ure in the New China, known
and revered in every corner
of China, a deathless symbol
of international solidarity and
friendship between Canada
and China. And of old 8th
Route Army men, now build-
ing the great steel city of An-
shan who love Cananda_be-
cause a Canadian doctor and
a Canadian nurse healed their
wounds and gave them cour-
age to do the job of peaceful
building they are now doing.

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