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I have finished watching it, and I am very moved. This is the highest-rated foreign documentary I have seen about socialist China. It was filmed in China before the normalization of China-Japan relations. Many narrations express the director’s feelings towards socialist China, and it also quotes a lot of Chairman Mao’s quotations. Many shots are also very well taken. This documentary also uses Northeast China as an example to detail how socialist China gradually reduced the three major disparities and the scissors difference during the Cultural Revolution, with farmers learning to work in factories and workers learning agriculture. It reminds me of how in the past, the Chinese reformists and liberals often slandered socialist China as a ‘worker’s state exploiting farmers and making farmers live hard lives,’ but this documentary effectively refutes that with concrete examples.
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