Naughton, Barry - In: The China quarterly : an international journal for the … (1988), pp. 351-386
Between 1964 and 1971 China carried out a massive programme of investment in the remote regions of south-western and … western China. This development programme - called the "Third Front" - envisaged the creation of a huge self …-sufficient industrial base area to serve as a strategic reserve in the event of China being drawn into war. The article describes and …