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Show inPcPficientist speaks fYang hails China's gain I '" s.-JgL- "WW r '' - k M , tremendously moving :,nnal experience for me. J be a totally M try" said Dr. Chen-, Chen-, dC HurTn'q his lecture on 'SSRepublic ion V Monday night. cl China in and l and 72. "Matenal-w.se. ,so VstiM poor country by be.c standards, but a country las, nitely better materia can; in, compared with the f, remember. But is in the this'l, domain that I found China nan,. most exciting country that bervisitedandlhave visited 'wn,' he said, any Forthe people ely. fjnaisa very moral country, ion people are dedicated to the ues of 'to serve the people', in 0 8 lion of Dr. Yang. He finds leir change of moral atmosphere to be ,-jst amazing. ie first principle of the 08 rational system in China is that on -ation is to produce a 'ho Oration of young people who ul1- oric for the people, according T -X Yang- cent alization-giving the local people authority and freedom to determine what they want to do Dr. Yang brought with him various colorful slides of his visits to China. Among the ancient pagodas and scenery, were a couple of slides dealing with acupuncture He witnessed an operation using acupuncture anaesthesia. It seems that six needles, three on each leg were inserted to a depth of lesi than a centimeter and then six - electrodes were connected in parallel and fed to a little box with batteries inside, while another electrode was attached to the patient's back. The batteries generated electricity of a saw-tooth shape with voltage of around ten according to Dr. Yang. In his opinion, the patient, who was apparently "bright-eyed" and talking during the operation, felt no pain. Another slide was of some members of the Chinese army. "You will find, in the great army of China, not only men soldiers but also women soldiers. They number a few percent of the Chinese armed forces..." said Dr. Yang. The lecture, which lasted for about two hours, concluded with a short question and answer period. CHEN-N1NG YANG... ...Chinese scientist financed by and under the direction of the Academy of Science. Recently a system has been developed called 'double-leadership', 'double-leadership', whereby the scientific institute will simultaneously be under leadership of the local authorities and the Academy. He considers this a very interesting experiment, which is consistent with the tendency in China of de- lne inese students graduate rrom lictoolwhen they are about 17 tne sold and are then sent to work 5 " stories or farms for two or ldd -i years. Afterwards they may er" ; ejected' to attend college. The .t0 j determining factor is whether ln' i students' colleagues will vote Stay are truly selfless people. vhnical competence, knowlege )n' i ability, rank second in sraiining admission to college. jst Learn by doing on taring to Dr. Yang, it is 'as f'eved in China that "theory must 6 ; hand-in-hand with practice". a.' s why many high school ints work in school-attached on uiiies, Dr. Yang visited the 31st '" School of Peking, which he at aded in the 1930s. It had le. :n frorn an enrollment of 300-Jrt 300-Jrt 30 to around 1600. In the school series he found some students n ding with lathes, while others ft making printed circuits using d Mographic equipment they had 's A Faculty members take turns ld g in these factories. Each ts 'M spends one month on a ld Hone month in a factory, eight at Whs at regular classwork and S s two-month vacation per . i,f various reasons in the -ory of China, manual labor has .' de-emphasized. There was 'Edition of saying that, "People ,fsse their hands are controlled people. The people who s , their brains control people." e a kind of social system that d 'Present government wants to ' 'lwaV with. I was told, for Y , China does not want to e a trememdous number of h 's who only know how to s :!'? !and on the black-Jj black-Jj id Dr. Yang. Science esteemed S a! a'l telt in Chi"a that 8 5 ?Uld not be by rote ' 5 but stimulating the ! JSt:le:est- V Dr. Yang. Z , has not been wholly 11 I " Partly due to the lack of r 'fnd facilities, but also " fact that one thousand dVradition cannot be : Wovern,gh, !athougn china ' .'ng to do so). Stories i CacLde;eTphasizin9 the Hith and trVn9 10 d0 , Mnce are, from his ; Nervations, total non- ) eVesearch is mostlv iiheartr,. cademY of Science Crrsin Peking-There extensive re-organization 'MffiK lc irstitutes which , around 70. They are |