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# China ... from p. 1Cahill, Department of Art, University of California, Berkeley, (Fine Arts); Professor Jerome A. Cohen, Langdell Hall, Harvard Law School, (Law, Chinese Studies); Dr. Paul Doty, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, (Physical Chemistry), and Dr. Alexander Eckstein, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, (Economics). Dr. Eckstein heads another group interested in scholarly exchanges, the National Committee on United States-China Relations, and is a well known authority on Chinese economics.Others on the Scholarly Communications committee are: Dr. Caryl P. Haskins, President, Carnegie Institution of Washington, (Physiology, Genetics); Dr. Gerald J. Holton, Department of Physics, Harvard University, (Physics); Dr. Walsh McDermott. Department of Public Health, Cornell University Medical College, (Medicine); Dr. Emil Smith, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, (Biochemistry, Biophysics); Dr. Kenneth V. Thimann, Provost and Professor of Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, (Botany, Plant Physiology), and Dr. John A. Wheeler, Palmer Physical Laboratory, Princeton University, (Physics).## Medical Progress- Despite a 25-year period of no exchange of information between the U.S. and China, a vast amount of detailed data has been accumulated, all indicating that China has again stabilized itself after the turmoil of 1966. Since 1969 over 2,000 types of Chinese traditional and Western medicines have seen reduced in price by an average of 30 per cent. Imports of scientific equipment and chemicals such as pharmaceuticals, fertilizers and synthetic fibers have dropped because of China's improving capability to produce its own instruments, machinery and chemicals. This accounts in some measure for the fact that the Department of Commerce does not expect a vast amount of medical goods and equipment to be exported when and if the Administration relaxes controls on movement of non-strategic goods to China.## Western InfluenceThe Autumn Canton Trade Fair recently gave some indication of the trends in China. Among the changes noted were the 30 per cent increase in customers and the Chinese favoritism for West European countries, especially France and Italy, at Japan's expense. Exhibits at the fair reflected numerous technological advances over the previous year. Among the displays were silicon-controlled automatic electronic and punch-tape-controlled tools, measuring and testing instruments, oscilloscopes, microscopes, and a wide range of synthetic plastics, resins and such basic drugs as antibiotics, sulphur drugs and vitamins.The revolution in Chinese education has produced many schools such as the Shantung University of Science and Technology in Tsinan which opened last October.Chairman Mao's thinking along medical lines is responsible for the "cooperative medical service" intended to bring medical treatment to all rural areas. It has been reported that one-12 third of a million city medical workers and graduates of medical colleges have settled in rural areas while 400,000 others were organized into mobile medical teams to tend rural areas. This has prompted shifting of some hospitals from large metropolitan centers to the country. The Hailung area, it is reported, has set up a so-called "red medical network" designed to enable each production team and factory to have its own highly publicized "barefoot doctors."In another area all medical school graduates have been dispatched to the countryside and one-half of the medical workers in Harbin, Tsitshihar, Mutanchiang and Chiamusze have been sent to the rural and mountainous regions. "In this spirit," the Chinese say, "they have converted rural homes to allow for surgical operations."