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Congressionol Research Service. Included among the topics assessed are 

 economic policy, the defense burden, agriculture, transportation, industry, 

 population, the environment, technology transfer, international trade, 

 financing, Sino-Japanese economic relations, and foreign aid. A summary is 

 included. 



Among the papers, those that deal with science and technology as well 

 as scientific and technological infrastructure are: "China's Population: Can 

 the Contradictions Be Resolved?," Leo Orleans; "Balance in Coastal and 

 Inland Industrial Development," Charles R. Roll, Jr. and Kung-Chia Yeh; 

 "China's Environomics: Backing Into Ecological Leadership," Leo A. 

 Orleans; "Civilian Industrial Production in the People's Republic of China: 

 1949-1974," Robert Michael Field; "The Chinese Petroleum Industry: 

 Growth and Prospects," Bobby A. Williams, "China's Iron and Steel Indus- 

 try," Alfred H. Usack, Jr., and James D. Egan; "China: Domestic and 

 International Telecommunications, 1949-74," Jack Craig; "China: Agri- 

 culture in the 1970s," Alva Lewis Erisman; "Constraints Influencing China's 

 Agricultural Performance," Dwight H. Perkins; "Rural Industrialization in 

 China," Jon Sigurdson; "Acquisition and Diffusion of Technology in China," 

 Han Heymann, Jr. 

 U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. China: a Quarter Century 

 After the Founding of the People's Republic. 94th Cong., 1st sess. Jan. 29, 1975. 

 Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975. 91 p. (Committee print.) 



"Report by Sen. Mike Mansfield . . . following his most recent visit to 



China, Dec. 9-30, 1974 on: Chinese progress in implementing its internal 



social and economic policies, with focus on health services and agriculture; 



U.S.-China relations, emphasizing issues relating to Taiwan and trade 



matters; and China's foreign policy." 



U;S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee 



on Health. Health Care in China, 1973. Hearings, May 1973. Washington, U.S. 



Govt. Print. Off., 1973. 265 p. 



To examine the state of medicine in the Peoples' Republic of China. 

 U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcom- 

 mittee on Health. Health Policies and Services in China, 197 J^. 93d Cong., 2d 

 sess. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 42 p. (Committee print.) 



"Report prepared ... by Leo A. Orleans, Library of Congress, examines 

 current health services in China emphasizing the extent to which conditions 

 have improved since 1948 through concentration on basic sanitation, preven- 

 tive medicine, and the widespread use of paramedics." (3) 

 Whitson, William W. "China's Quest for Technology." Problems of Communism, 

 V. 22, July- Aug. 1973: 16-30. 



The author believes China will focus its attention on acquiring defense- 

 related technology. 

 Williams, Bobby A. "The Chinese Petroleum Industry: Growth and Prospects." 

 In China: a Reassessment of the Economy: a Compcndiuin of Papers Submitted 

 to the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States. Washington, 

 U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975. p. 22,5-263. 

 Wu, Yuan-li. "Chinese Technological and Economic Capabilities: is the PRC a 

 Stabihzing or Destabilizing Influence?" Orbis, v. 17, fall 1973: 880-894. 



"U.S. pnlicj'makcrs seem to have, in their own minds, ascribed to the 



PRC a balancing role on the Soviet Union's Far Eastern front." The article 



examines some of the assumptions implicit in envisaging such a role for 



Peking. 



Wu, Yuan-li and Robert B. Sheeks, et. al. The Organization and Siipport of 



Scientific Research and Development in Mainland China. New York, Published 



for the National Science Foundation by Praeger Publisher's, 1970. 593 p. 



Deals with: history of science and technology to 1969, formulation of 

 goals and policy, trends in the structure of R and D, financing of R and D 

 activities, users of funds for science, R and D institutions in operation, 

 economic growth and the R and D effort, and various inventories of research 

 and development. 



