Word: guangdong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These two angry men are among the 221,000 refugees from Viet Nam who have been resettled on state farms; 78,000 in Guangxi province, 27,000 in Yunnan and others scattered in Guangdong and Fujian provinces. Thirty thousand more are in refugee camps near the Viet Nam border waiting for places in permanent settlement areas...
...only one-seventh as efficient as one in Hong Kong. The general bullishness is summed up by Sir Lawrence Kadoorie, 79, a Hong Kong-born multimillionaire, who is negotiating to buy large amounts of Chinese coal for a new Hong Kong generating station that will supply electricity to neighboring Guangdong (Kwangtung) province. As he gazes out at Hong Kong's beautiful harbor, he asks: "Is there any place on earth where the future looks brighter than here...