Plan, 1956Plan, -1967 , which aimed at raising agricultural production 2Y:z times in this period. The actual rate of growth is already faster than that projected in the Twelve Year Plan and is proceeding in an atmosphere of "uninterrupted revolution" which has never experienced a retreat towards any kind of NEP. Of course, I cannot hold myself personally responsible for the absolute accurary of all these figures, though they are official. At the same time, the amount of information collected is

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... sufficiently consistent for me to assert on my own responsibility that what is happening in China is the most impressive agricultural advance in world history.