Dazhai
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Dazhai () is a village and former commune of several hundred farmers in Xiyang County in eastern Shanxi province, chiefly known for Mao Zedong's directive, "Learn from Dazhai in agriculture", which set up Dazhai as the model for agricultural production throughout China during the 1960s and 1970s, amid the Cultural Revolution.
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- 'Learn from Dazhai'
- See also
- References
- Further reading
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{{Infobox settlement
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dazhai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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