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1. I assume Mao approved and accepted the plans and politics discussed at the November 1963 session of the 2nd National People's Congress, particularly since his personal representative, Ch'en Po-ta, had been appointed a Vice-Chairman of the State Planning Commission a year earlier.Google Scholar

2. Owen L., Dawson, Communist China's Agriculture, Praeger, 1970. Dawson's estimates are presented for contrast, and are the highest seen by me, just as Kang Chao's are the lowest.Google Scholar

3. Peking has several times directly given its cultivated areas as 1,600,000,000 mou for this period a rough figure which in the rounding error covers a range from 103,300,000 to 110,000,000 hectares.Google Scholar

4. Kang Chao cites my estimates made in 1966 on draft animals. Since the emergency atmosphere and special measures with respect to draft animals ended shortly thereafter, I must now conclude that the fragmentary data I had used were seriously biased and greatly exaggerated the crisis.Google Scholar