State Power and the Logic of Reform in China’s Electricity Sector
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“Our [power] plant no longer needs imported equipment or skills. ...Recalling the past, [veteran machinery maintenance man] Lu said, ‘Under imperialist control, all important technical data was withheld from Chinese workers. ...Today all the technology is in our hands. And we run our plant ten times better than the imperialists!’” “Shanghai’s biggest power plant—then and now,” China Reconstructs, June 19651
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