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March 2, 2017 4:56 AM
'Third-Front" (san xian) construction was a strategic policy in the modern history of China. In the early 1960s, in the face of a complicated international situation, to preserve the nation’s strength Chairman Mao Zedong decided to relocate many heavy industries and military factories to the southwestern and northwestern hinterland areas. This extensive industrial move was historically known as the “Third-Front Construction".'
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