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Article: Heilongjiang Modernizes State Farms
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- April 27, 1999
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Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province will upgrade 80 percent
of
its outmoded tractors and harvesters as well as a great number of
auxiliary farm machines in state farms and land reclamation zones
over the next five or six years.
This will cost about 600 million U.S. dollars, said Zhang
Xiangyuan, a senior official of the Heilongjiang Provincial
Administration of State Farms and Land Reclamation.
And the upgrading program was kicked off with the recent arrival
in Dalian, a port city of northeast China's Liaoning Province, of a
number of tractors imported from the Fiat- Newholland company, which
have a value of two billion Japanese yen.
The delivery is just part of ...