Mao’s China · TURNING POINT ·
Withdrawal of Soviet experts (1960)
On the Mao’s China map as “Lanzhou: the experts leave”
Jul–Aug 1960 — Within a month, Khrushchev recalls all 1,390 Soviet experts and cancels hundreds of contracts. Many experts take their blueprints away. Among the unfinished projects is the gaseous-diffusion plant at Lanzhou, built to enrich uranium. Chinese engineers finish the plant, which produces bomb-grade uranium in January 1964.
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