Chinese women in the workforce during the Great Leap Forward. The newly built observatory of Beijing Planetarium (138 Xizhimen Outer St, Dong Wu Yuan, Xicheng District, Beijing, China). Men working at construction site near the Beijing Planetarium. Laborers pulling a cart on the street. A floral red fabric running through a weaving machine at a textile factory. Chinese women working at combing machines in textile factory. Chinese women factory workers share a meal together, eating noodles from bowls. A Chinese factory worker nurses her child during her break time. Chinese boys wearing red scarves and holding flowers. A maternity hospital in Beijing, possibly the Beijing Obstetrics Gynecology Hospital. Hospital clinic windows in Beijing. A female Chinese doctor working at a community clinic stamps a document. A worker’s family grandmother holding a granddaughter in her arms. A woman cooks in the courtyard of a factory workers' apartment building.
The Ming Tombs in Beijing, China. Stone elephants adorn the Spirit Way, the road leading to the Ming Tombs. A gate at the Ming Tombs. A white man in sunglasses walks in front of The Soul Tower at Changling Tomb. Chinese men in white shirts stand in front of the Chang Ling Ming tomb A man throws trash into a wooden trash bin. Shirtless laborers wearing coolie hats lift a stone block at a reservoir construction site near the tombs. Woman and man construction workers push wheelbarrows as others labor in the background. Men tamping down soil using a primitive compactor. Forms for a concrete arched bridge. A Chinese laborer smiles. A soldier in uniform worker laughs during the Great Leap Forward.
Chinese woman walks past factory workers' apartments in Shenyang, China. Chinese man carries a sack on his shoulders as he walks past apartments. A woman holds a baby, with two other daughters in front of their apartment building. A Chinese woman holding her baby while walking outside apartment. A smiling Chinese girl wearing a red neckerchief holds a fly swatter as part of her contribution to the "Kill Pests" campaign under the Great Leap Forward. A busy street in heart of Shenyang. Model employees’ photographs are on display on a bulletin board at a state-run department store. Customers walking outside the state-run department store. A crowd watching a film shoot on the street. A child actress plays with a ball during shooting. A woman script supervisor writing notes. Chinese film crew at work as two male actors stand in a doorway with crew running 35mm motion picture camera. Crowd stands behind camera and light reflector while watching production.
The Director of the Shenyang Cable Factory in communist China. Spools of copper wire on the factory floor. Chinese worker smiles as he guides copper wire upwards from spool into upstairs factory area. Men pointing to propaganda posters calling the United States “bandits” and encouraging workers to surpass United States production. Other Great Leap Forward propaganda posters urge production to rise like the Sputnik space progam. One poster depicts an Arab holding a rifle translates to, “Send the British invading army out of the Middle East.” A man reads a plant production board outside a factory. Red flags on plant production chart denote workers with good productivity. Young Chinese students march to a factory as voluntary laborers. Boys who are members of the Youth League are seen shoveling gravel on the street.
Steel mill operated by the Steel Company of Anshan, the center of steel production in China during the Great Leap Forward. Smokestacks of steel factory. Hopper on conveyor rises outside steel mill. Foundry ladle pours metal. Row of open hearth furnaces. A foundry worker pulls a sample from a furnace. Steel mill workers silhouetted against glowing liquid metal. Hot steel bars roll on factory assembly line. Sparks fly above Bessemer converter. Chinese workers crowd in front of a small steel furnace. A steel mill worker in protective clothing works outside the small foundry. A worker looks into hearth and then turns to camera with a smile. A communist propaganda banner hanging in front of the foundry reads “We are determined to liberate Taiwan.”
International Workers' Day (also known as Labor Day or “May Day”) parade in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province (Canton, Kwangtung Province) China. Students in period costumes pose on top of a parade float in Guangzhou. The float is adorned with communist banners. Crowds watch the float parade. Chinese communist workers march with Cultural Revolution propaganda banners during the parade. A man wearing a Mao suit cheering. Communist street performances during the May Day parade. Chinese girls perform gymnastics on the streets. A Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official shake hands with people. Two People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers stand guard. Chinese women shaking pom-poms and perform a dance. Faces of smiling Chinese men and women in the crowd. Girls perform a banner dance. Street musicians perform with instruments. Chinese gymnast girls perform jumping jacks.