China, c 1955 (colour photo)

At the tenth anniversary of the Keng Chang-so Agricultural Producers' Co-operative, the machine and tractor station established by the Hopei Provincial People's Government in Wukung Village carried out a demonstration of ploughing by tractor. The co-operative was established in 1943 in Wukung Village, Jaoyang County, Hopei Province, a base of the Eighth Route Army during the War of Resistance to Japanese Aggression. Its original membership of four peasant households has now grown to 287. All have prospered. One of a set of loose plates edited by China Pictorial and printed in the People’s Republic of China, 1950s. No photo credits.