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dated June 26, 1958: Executives as labourers

China’s 60-year-old Prime Minister, Mr. Chou En-lai, has spent three days as a labourer carrying stones on the site of the Ming Toms giant reservoir project, the new China News Agency reported. He led two groups of Ministers, heads of departments and Communist Party officials, who left their city offices to spend two weeks as labourers, sleeping at the site in temporary hostels. Earlier, the Chinese leader Mao Tse-Tung also worked on the site, in line with a Communist Party directive to all executives to work as labourers.

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