Some people accused Xiaogang's villagers of "digging up the cornerstone of socialism." Luckily, Fengyang Prefecture's Party Secretary, Wang Yuzhao, was open-minded. Yan had an audience with Wang ...

(China.org.cn / WANG Ke) "I used to roam the countryside ... In Fengyang County (where Xiaogang is located), a quarter of the population died – 90,000 in all." On the night of December 1978 ...