Pollution

The Chinese have also become very conscious of the problem of pollution, and the film shows some of the ways in which they are trying to overcome it. Conservation of natural resources has always been an important part of the Chinese government's policy and after liberation in 1949 the Chinese embarked on a vast reafforestation programme. Last year's NZUSA delegation was particularly impressed by the number of trees they saw in urban areas.

One particularly interesting part of the policy of self reliance which the film brings out is the development of small neighbourhood workshops in the towns. Housewives, make up a large number of the workers in these workshops, and Greene shows house-wives making tiny integrated circuits for computers — work which is only done in a few highly developed laboratories in the west.