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Abandoned Cities: Yesterday and Today - Pi Li
Chen Jiagang focused his attention on the plants in the third front in his pictures. During the 1960s and 70s, China moved a large quantity of military factories from North-eastern China and Shanghai to the remote South-western frontiers in order to strengthen China’s national defence. Millions of workers left their homes, and migrated to these mountainous areas. But with time changing, these factories got abandoned gradually from the beginning of 1980s due to the change of China’s macro-economic and foreign policies. Most people who had worked here left these places and went back where they had come from. However, the once busy factories got desolated. These are the so called “Abandoned Cities” in Chen Jiagang’s dictionary.