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Wan Li, who revamped farming in China, dies
Published Fri, Jul 17, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Hong Kong
WAN Li, the Communist Party leader who helped end the failed Mao-era policy of collective farming, which had left rural Chinese in desperate poverty, died on Wednesday in Beijing. He was 98.
His death was reported by the Chinese state-run media.
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