Talien

In old China industry was concentrated in the eastern part of the country. Nearly all the iron and steel enterprises were set up in the cities of Anshan, Penki, Talien, Tientsin and Shanghai, within 100 kilometres of the sea.

To help the Talien Harbor Administration carry out its three-year improvement plan, students and teachers from the metallurgical equipment specialty went to work on the docks.

In influx of the new inexperienced senior management in the North East and part of North China liberated before the spring of 1949 had three important consequences. Firstly their inexperience resulted in an enormous influence exercised by the joint Sino-Soviet enterprises in Lushun and Talien which were under Soviet occupation and where, in fact senior management was largely Soviet; this will de discussed in Chapter 4 adn 5.

She had come to Talien by boat, and before then she had probably lived in Vladivostok.