From all reports, the increase in mechanization over the past three decades has been impressive, although much of the evidence comes form communes and production brigades which have had model or demonstration status, and from the state farms in frontier areas such as Hei-lung-chiang, which were pioneered by Japanese soldier-settlers during the Manchuko period in an attempt to establish a soldier-yeomanry that would provide protection against Russian threats to northern Manchuria.

The station has been refurbished both at ground level and below ground, where the wide, fluorescently lit platforms are an almost unrecognisable metamorphosis of the dingy, reeking Low Level of old.

Strong virtue, like strong nature, struggles still, / Exerts itself, and then throws off the ill.

There was a bring-and-buy on in the village green.