7- a :DL' It- {ol :-_ T[TfolIF AYil Ere iIfrE'II rIjIe irq;t tI.a' l.li iT]Etf;.r a 1t tIo T a I .l a /,a l '^'l o ,i6NIj IET=T 4 ril ol it , f' z 7l tlfrF- 'q CH RECO NSTRUCTS INA PUBLI5HED MONTHLY IN ENGLISH, FRENCH; SPANISH, ARABIC AND BIMONTHLY IN GERMAN BY THE CHINA WELFARE INSTITUIE t\D I ii. (sooNc cHtNG L|NG, CHATRMAN) voL. xxvilt No. s MARCH I979 CONTENIS Our Postbag Modernization and Women Cartoons by Wang Letian a Soong Ching Ling, o Vice-Choir- Across the Land: New Shanghai General mon ol the Notionol People's Con- Petrochemical Works 4 gress, Honorory President ol the No- China's Women in Our New Long March tionol Women's Federotion ond Soong Ching Ling 6 plominent for o holl century in the women's movement, The Women Meet (poem) Rewi Alley 11 tells obout the present roles of Chinese women in Norma ization Has a History A Two-Way the society os well os ot home (p. 6). Street Ma Haide - 12 And on interview with luo Qiong, Record of a Fighting Life Exhibition on Vice-Choirmon of the Notionol Wom- Zhou - 19 Enlai Su Donghai en's Federotion, who soys the tor- Qingdao Port City and Summer Resort get - is not men but complete Zeng Xiang0ing 26 emoncipotion through sociolist pro- Things Chinese: Laoshan Mineral Water e.) gress (p. 33). The Women's Movement in China-An lnter- Pages 6 and 33 view with Luo Qiong 'The Donkey Seller' Bao Wenqing 37 Wood Carving Continues Fu Tianchou 42 The Record of New Spelling ior Names and Places 45 a Fighting Life The Silence Explodes A Play about the Tian An Men Incident- Ren Zhiji and A tour through E^^ t;^^^: I dtl Jldoal 46 on exhibition Stamps ot New China Arts and Crafts 49 on the lote Cultural Notes: 'Women Skin Divers', a Color Premier Zhou Documentary Li Wenbin 50 Enloi. China's Steel lndustry Recovers Rung Ye 56 Page 19 Noted Doctor on ln Our SocieLy: To LIve Like Anyone Else 60 Sports: lce Hockey Friendship Tournament 62 Normalization Chinese History Vl Dr. Mo Hoide (George Western Han- A Time of Prosperity Hotem), Americon who - on Jiao Jian 64 hos served in Chino more Han Armory Shows Progress from Bronze to thon 40 yeors, points out lron Weapons 69 the importonce of the new The Water ls Clean Again Bian Hui 70 Chino-U,5. r";o116p5 "q two-woy street," - Do You Know? Chinese Tea 74 Vignettes of Hui Life ll 1F The lmam of Niujiafang- A Liberated Woman Chinese Cookery: Oyster-Sauce Beef (Hao South China Sea You Niu Rou) 77 Steel Recovers I Language Corner: 78 Skin Divers Lesson 3: At a Restaurant Steel production in 1978 wos 8 million tons riore thon I Review ol o COVER PICTURES:, the yeor,!Y' before. Con__'. Chino_..1,.- Frontr Woman Skin (see page Li | mentory on o Diver 50) keep poce Hanjun this ond reoch her I *omenis div- totget million on Back: Autumn on Tianchi Lake Xinjiang of 60 tons ol I inS teom in Hoinon lslond (Sinkiang). Liu Yunlai steel by 1985? | Editoriol Ollicp: Woi Wen Building, Beijing (37), Chino. Page 56 eage 50 Cobler "CHIRECON" Beijing. Generol Distributor: | GUOZI SHUDIAN, P.O. Box 399, Beijins, Chino. Gaze at the ancient llouing Road to Socialism toater. May our lrieadship be as eoer- For someone living lar away from lasting as the rit:er, China, Chiza Reconstracts truly gives a good picture of China's road to so- cialism. The Bamboo Bridge I have with great interest read the articles on China's Eight-Point Charter Sino-U.S. Diplomatic bridge Greeting ln 1972 a bomboo for Agriculture. Shotghai to Relations stretched lrom I would like to see more articles on Son Francisco. First, allow me to express my haPPi- the minority nationalities. You could Its nanow rood ran west; its tell your readers about the history, ness at the establishment of diplomatic pilings plunged dee9 into the relations between the United States and customs, traditions and 'ivay of life of Pacilic. each minority, and how it is related the People's Republic of China. I have Fierce sea storms sweeping many years. to other nationalities in or outside Chi- waited for this event for greot TDoDes ocross the world mY na. I would also Iike to see accom- Secondly, I would like to voice could not destroa the bornboo support for the new format of China panying maps showing where each quality bridge. minority nationality lives. Reconstructs. The variety and But it uas a norrou bridge ond of the articles are excellent. I es- K.M. the people at either end hoPe Bugiri, Uganda pecially enjoyed the article on the lor o uider, two-toov bridge reevaluation of attitudes on love and to make them hopplJ. New Page in Foreign Policy the Chinese love story. E'B, B.P. San Froncisco, U.S.A. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations economic and technical Monterey, U.S.A. and eooperation with countries in Europe I send you a clipping fror1t the Neur More on Chinese Women and other advanced industrial coun- Times which is filled with the tries, a new page has been opened in York fiom great news of our formalizing relations I think lhal Chino Reconstructs the foreign policy of the People's Re- year than those from with your great country. You have the last are.better public of China. no idea how enthusiastic most of the the years before. There is more de- It is very important not only for the it has more people are about this; the newspapers tailed information and realization of China's f our moderniza- and television are filled with every interesting subjects. tions but also for the -consolidation and more about the aspect of the matter. I would like to read development of the proletarian forces T.A. emaqcipation of women in China. Are of the world. women Neu York, U.S.A. there differences between the I think it is a good thing for China in the towns and countrY? What is to develop economic and technical co- the future of the "housewife factories operation with more countries. Travel and Friendship in the neighborhoods"? When China N.M. On a recent trip to China I met Tao starts $/ith mechanization, are the Aachen, Fed,erol Republic ol Germany Jian, a young Shanghai guide-inter- women the first who become unem- preter for China International Travel ployed? Why are the women of China Sino-French Cooperation Service. He and I became friends and the people rnost responsible for the glad see the recent over a period of several days I helped education of the children? "Whatever We were very to country, of your Vice- him with his English which was men comrades can accomplish, women visits to our Fang and your Minister of already excellent. We decided to write comrades can too." But how about the Premier Yi each other poems in English which we other way: whatever women comrades Communications. visits have given rise could then use as basis what had can accomplish, can men comrades too? I think these a for between our two Lessons. Here I would also like to know more about to new cooperation become our daily English beneficial to our are the two poems: Tao Jian's first, the traditional customs, folk songs, countries and will be two peoples. which is excellent; then mine. They clothes of the minority nationalities. I hope to see an article in the future speak for themselves. A.H. Amsterilam, Holland on Sino-French cooperation in com- munication and plans for building new Travel and Friendship railway trunk Iines for developing Colombia's Cultural Week China's industry. Atop the Great Wall, TLH We, hand dn hand, China Reconstructs is one of the best Toulon, Fronce Climb this wonder ol the uotld.. magazines I have ever read, It Pro- Mag our unity be os soliil os vides us with facts on China's socialist GrouP the uoll. construction. It is lively in content, From a Research ln Shanghai's Yu Gardens, rich and varied in format and im- In the article "Chinese History-I: We, glasses in our honds, proves with each issue. Primitive Society," the Part on ma- Drink to our heort's content. In our country, more and more Peo- triarchal clan is especially helpful to Moa our liues be as hopplj as ple sympathize with China, the es- us, because we are now studying this photos the occasion. tablishment of the Colombia - China period of anthropology. The Relaring in Suzhou (Saochou) Friendship Association Speaks for it- selected coordinated well with the Gordens, self. Recently, a cultural week uias article. We hope more articles of this We, happy with loughter, held here in this city while movies and kind will appear in the future, so that Ailmire the beoutdtul blossoms. photo exhibitions were shown. Your we can discuss this subject with you Moy our tuture be as colorlul magazine also made contributions to' and teli yoi about our Preient work, os this naturol beoutg. the week's activity, which showed its for we have always paid great atten- Drh:ing along 'the Zhujiang importance, tion to the study of the Peking Man. (Pearl) Rioer, J'R'G'U' G.R. We, shoulder to shouliler, cartooeno, colombio Cambo Les Bains, Fronce CHINA RECONSTRUCTS 2 CARTOGft{S Wong and Found I l-ost I Amnesia lL_ Jl I lr €ffica O-, A eartoon educating bus riders: Before, the strong were al- --' , ways at the front of the line; with a iraffic monitor the A Test of Patience elderly and mothers with small chililren were in front; when the monitor is away riilers revert to iheir old habits.