This is the third part of a three-part documentary about People’s Republic of China, filmed in 1967 by Swedish filmmaker Bo Gaertze, and released by a number of companies (this is a German version released by the FWU). Here, the journey continues from Beijing to Shanghai, along the Grand Canal, by the city of Wuhan, through the village of Jiawu in Zhejiang province, a short glimpse of the city of Wuxi, with an examination of the issues related to agricultural modernization and an examination of Shanghai’s industry. The footage gives an outlook of the real wages of the Chinese workers of the time and their working conditions.

00:21 map of China: from Beijing to Shanghai

00:33 View from the train towards the rice paddies, cabbage fields, villages and verdant mountains in the distance.

1:00 More villages crisscrossed by small canals, bridges.

1:15 The train crossing the Grand Canal from Beijing to Hangzhou, serving not only as a means of crops irrigation but as a shipping route.

1:24 The sailing junks on the Grand Canal

1:28 Railway ferry on the Yangtze river

1:44 Rail workers on the steam train

1:53 Wuhan Yangtze Great bridge

2:30 Basins dug in near the Yangtze river for early aquaculture

2:35 Fishermen

3:05 Net full of carp

3:21 Corn field being irrigated

3:36 Cotton fields

3:50 Tea bush field, surrounded by mulberry trees, for feeding silkworms.

4:06 People’s commune of Jiawu, Zhejiang province

4:23 School in Jiawu

4:34- Women tea-pickers in wide-brimmed hats and bearing baskets for the tea.

4:49 Terraced fields, a water-buffalo drawn plough

5:11 Raking the rice paddy at a commune.

5:28 1930s era Gravely Mutt Moto Plough or a Japanese tractor

5:32 – A 1946 Zetor 25 tractor with “Yangtse Public Communes, Riziculture Tractor” written on it.

5:44 Planting vegetable shoots

6:13 Tying cucumber plants to the guide frames in a greenhouse

6:24 Two men cleaning out a dry irrigation channel. Workers tilling a watermelon field.

6:58 Peanut field

7:04 Tobacco field An export product

7:12 Lotus, cultivated for its edible root.

7:20 People bringing huge baskets and sacks loaded with vegetable and fruit on bicycles : Bicycles are an important means of transportation in China, as there are not enough trucks yet, and the railway network, despite its spread, isn’t penetrating the deep country

7:46 On the train again, passing an express train to Shanghai-Nanjing

7:55 Wuxi

8:21 Shanghai, population 8 million

8:47 Port of Shanghai, Huangpu river

9:02 The passenger ship “Democracy” built in Shanghai, leaving port

9:14 Many seagoing vessel types are built at Shanghai wharves – tankers, freighters, 9:23 The 15000 ton freighter Red Flag/Hongqi of Shanghai

9:26 Power shovel

9:27 Longshoreman moving barrels

9:42 Longshoremen pushing the heavily-laden loading boat away from the dock with long poles.

9:53 A West German ship Mai Rickmers (built in 1957), Hamburg

10:10 Numerous self-propelled barges and sampans

10:28 Shanghai Expo Hall

10:37 Nondestructive Xray inspection of an alloy beam

10:47 Working on a crankshaft for a car.

11:10 Man, explaining the operation of a domestically-designed and produced cigarette-making machine

11:35 An optical lens manufacturing and polishing line at a new camera factory, where are produced Russian cameras, similar to Leica

11:43 Women in cleanroom with dustproof clothing assembling Shanghai 4 cameras

12:00 Shanghai Wristwatch Factory.

12:48 An industry worker earns double of the wages in agriculture.

12:52 Afterwork study. Quotes from Mao are written by the workers themselves

13:15 During breaks they’re reading the writings of Chairman Mao

13:27 Selected works of Mao Zedong, volume 2

13:37 A moped/scooter and light motorcycle factory in Shanghai.

14:00 Vehicle factories in Shanghai are experiencing a shortage of production machinery

14:23 Workers assembling a tractor.

14:34 Shanghai Bund

14:40 Street market in Shanghai, streets the majority of people riding bicycles or walking

14:57 Billboard with Lenin: “Lenin -the great teacher of the proletarian revolution”

15:03 Rally against the war in Vietnam, at Shanghai, Nanjing road, “American imperialism must lose!”

15:24 Singing of the patriotic songs in front of the Shanghai People’s Assembly (City Hall)

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