Since 1966, extensive offshore reserves in the continental shelf—stretching from the Yellow Sea as far as Hsi-Sha (Paracel) and Nan-Sha (Spratley) Islands in the South China Sea—have been reported in official Chinese statements,³ reinforcing the long-maintained claim that the PRC holds the third-largest oil and gas reserves in the world.⁴]

More to the point of this place than the crags and glens on the dining-room wall are the two fine colour prints of clipper ships in frames of birdseye maple.

Hundreds and thousands of people joyfully beat gongs and drums to deliver their applications and resolutions to local Party committees and governments. The people of Manshui District, Huoshan County, walked 40 miles to deliver their resolutions to the local Party committees.

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