1960:Campaign to eliminate illiteracy

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Updated: 2010-09-25 17:19

 

1960:Campaign to eliminate illiteracy

Farmers in northeast China's Jilin Province read newspapers in 1958 thanks to the campaign to eliminated illiteracy.[Xinhua]

 

1960:Campaign to eliminate illiteracy

Women practice new words on a ferry in south China's Fujian Province, September 1959. All the women working on the ferry in the region were illiterate before liberation in 1949. With help from local teachers, they took part in literacy classes upon the founding of new China.[Xinhua]