Tachai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: AN advanced fishing village in learning from the Tachai Brigade, the Kuanchushan Production Brigade of Wantzuhu Commune in Yuanchiang County lies on Tungting Lake in central China's Hunan Province.
ref: 1971, Peking Review, volume 14, →OCLC, page 17:
text: The important experience accumulated by the Party organizations of (Weishui) production brigade in Kuyuan County, (Hsinchu) brigade in Holan County , and (Kulu) brigade in Haiyuan County in earnestly grasping revolution in education, establishing political evening schools and rural schools, raising the consciousness of revolution in education among commune members and the peasant masses, deeping the mass movement of learning from Tachai and in increasing grain production, eloquently proves that instead of hindering production, grasping education can indeed stimulate production.
ref: 1971, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East. Weekly supplement 3, British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring Service, →OCLC, page 17:
text: People in multi-national Hunchun County in Northeast China's Yenpien Korean Autonomous Chou (Kirin Province) have made rapid progress in the revolution and production by closing their ranks under the guidance of the Chinese Communist Party's policy towards nationalities.[…]
Chin Cheng-ho, a veteran cadre of Korean nationality, is secretary of the Chinghsin commune party committee. During the Cultural Revolution, he has led the whole commune to learn from Tachai, national pace-setter in agriculture.
ref: 1972 July 27 [1972 July 27], “All Nationalities Help Each Other in Kirin Chou”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 146, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page G 3:
text: The article looked at the situation in Shouyang county, adjacent to Hsiyang county, Shansi, home of Tachai. Shouyang, according to Red Flag, had failed to benefit from proximity to China's agricultural pace-setter, for class enemies[…]
ref: 1974, Current Scene: Developments in Mainland China, volumes 12-13, →OCLC, page 17, column 2:
text: The Tachai Production Brigade is part of the Tachai Commune in Xiyang County, Shanxi Province, in Northern China. It’s tucked away in the Taihang Mountains, a bit over two hundred miles southwest of Peking, in an area with poor soil, serious erosion, and rock-strewn, mountainous terrain.
ref: 1975, Janet Goldwasser, Stuart Dowty, “Agriculture: The Foundation”, in Huan-Ying: Worker's China, Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 101:
text: Some Maoist “party cadres” at the lower echelon have taken an attitude of passive resistance against the “campaign of learning from Tachai in agriculture,” that was launched by Mao Tse-tung.
ref: 1975 December 21, “Difficulties in agriculture”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 50, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
text: Some 60% of the labour forces in Paote, Wuchai, Fanchih, Tai, Wutai and Pienkuan Counties were engaged in the work. Agricultural captial construction is being done on 24,000 sq km in the prefecture (Taiyuan, Shansi provinicial service 2300 gmt 3 Dec 76). Pienkuan County built 22,000 mow of Tachai-type fields in the past year.
ref: 1976, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East Weekly Supplement, →OCLC, page 3:
text: If one-third of China's counties were to reach the current level of production of Siyang County, the model county in which Tachai is situated, that would be about 350 to 360 million tons of grain.
ref: 1976 January 5 [1976 January 4], Fox Butterfield, “China's New Farm Drive Seen as Biggest Since the '50's”, in The New York Times, Hong Kong, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2025, page 12:
text: Chinchuan County CCP Committee in APA Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture has taken the class struggle as the key link, persisted in the Party's basic line and led the people throughout the county to seriously learn the basic experiences of Tachai and[…]
ref: 1976 [1976 March 3], Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East - Part 3, British Broadcasting Company, sourced from Chengtu, Szechwan provincial service, →ISSN, →OCLC, Abstract of report:
text: As in the whole country, cadres and poor and lower-middle peasants in our Taning County, inspired by the spirit of the National Conference on Learning From Tachai in Agriculture, were greatly stimulated and high in spirits and resolved to fight hard in the movement of learning from Tachai in agriculture and building Tachai-type counties everywhere.
ref: 1976 November 5 [1976 November 2], Taning County CCP Committee, “The 'Gang of Four' Sabotaged the Campaign to Learn From Tachai in Agriculture in a Vain Attempt to Restore Capitalism”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 215, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page K 4:
text: We left Tachai in the morning to catch a train for Chengchow via Shih-chia-chuang, the capital of Hopeh Province.
ref: 1977, Chiang Yee, China Revisited, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 100:
text: Chenan County is one of Shensi's progressive counties in learning from Tachai. Leaders of the county CCP Committee have provided good examples in fighting in unity.[…]
[SHENSI DAILY 18 February untitled editor's note to a frontpage report by the joint investigation group of the Organization Department of the Shensi Provincial CCP Committee and the Shanglo Prefectural CCP Committee: "The Chenan County CCP Committee Has Taken Exposing and Criticizing the Gang of Four as the Key Link and, in Close Connection With Reality, Seriously Carried Out Rectification of the Party and the Style of Work"]
ref: 1978 [1978 February 18], “County in Shensi Carries out Rectification”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: 5 Tachai-type counties were located in the Chinchung Prefecture. None were in South Shansi.¹²
ref: 1980, Jin-young Sou, The Tachai Campaign and China's Rural Policy, 1964-1979, →OCLC, page 433:
glosses: Alternative form of Dazhai.