After three years of work it Is perhaps not too carly to estimate the influence of this "first on the Kiangst firing line" rural service centre, That the Board of Directors and the feld staff have carried out all that its founders, Gen, and Mme Chiang, intended, Is to be found in the fact that fs a result of this, and other great movements within the province, Kiangsi 1s now a happier and more prosperous place for its millions of farmers and workers, The -board and work started at "Lichwan, even though the communist and government armies were still engaged in deadly conflict. Young men and women from Christian colleges "and Institutions volunteered for service on a very low salary basis and a thirly comprehensive programme of rural reconstruction was undertaken, The Kiangsi Provincial Government offered its wholehearted cooperation, and eventually appointed a member of the Lichwan star as the (Chu Chang) oficial In charge of that district, From start to finish the provincial. government has lived up. {o ils agreement and, as its resources have ineveased and the departments government have become more geMelent, this ce-operation "has proven io be one of the most substan-Hint factors in the success of the experiment,
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