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1960: Almost all research is focused on the development of nuclear technology.
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1960: With availability of gasoline and electricity in the 1960s, farmers begin to use tube wells for irrigation in Northern China.
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1960: Increasing use of tube wells for irrigation in Northern China will lead to groundwater depletion in the 1990s.
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1960, July: Khrushchev recalls Soviet advisors and technical experts in China. Open conflict between China and USSR.
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1961-1965: Increase in production and import of agricultural inputs (fertilizers, machinery, pesticides)
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1961-1965: Readjustment and recovery: "Agriculture First" policy. Food situation improves.
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1962: Border conflict with India over areas in the Himalaya.
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1962-1972: In the 1960s China's population growth peaks. Between 1962 and 1972 some 300 million babies are born.
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1962-1972: High population growth (average of 26.7 million birth per year) in the late 1960 increases pressure on natural resources.
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1964, Jan.: China and France establish diplomatic relations. Taiwan's embassy in Paris is closed.
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1964, Oct.: Test of first nuclear bomb in China.
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1965: Tibet becomes autonomous region.
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1966: The "Little Red Book". Climax of Mao-cult.
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1966-1976: During Cultural Revolution China's jurisdiction essentially ceases to operate.
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1966-1968: Destruction of "The Four Olds": Old ideas, old culture, old customs, old habits.
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1966-1976: 10 years of turmoil at schools and universities seriously harm China's intellectual elites.
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1966-1976: Mao's political concept of a "permanent cultural revolution" paralyzes his political enemies.
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1966-1976: Between "Cultural Revolution" and Mao's death stagnation in agriculture and industry.
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1966-1976: During the Cultural Revolusion, religious practice is condemned as feudalistic.
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1966-1976: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution - a decade lost in anarchy and chaos.
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1967: Test of first nuclear fusion device in China
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1968: The Space Flight Medical Research Centre is founded in preparation for manned space flights (led by Tsien Hsueshen).
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1969: Mao Zedong anoints Lin Biao as his heir apparent.
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1969, March: Clash with Soviet troops at Damansky Island (Zhen Bao) of the Ussuri river (Wusuli Jiang).
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1969, Oct.: First line of Beijing's subway is completed.
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