A newly-published book said that a U.S. clandestine plan on air raiding China's first nuclear weapon facilities 42 years ago forced Chinese leaders to alter the nation's economic development strategy.
The book on the modern Chinese economy revealed that the country thus had to hide its economic muscles in remote southwestern mountains to avoid the strikes.
The sudden change of economic development strategy, which governed all the national economic plans from 1966 to 1970, was a fact revealed by an academic book titled The Research Report on China's Ten Five-Year Plans, which was issued by China's top think tank, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) here Tuesday.
The book was compiled by prominent economist Liu Guoguang and
another handful of elite economists from the CASS.
The book said, after a careful study of international situations, Chairman Mao Zedong masterminded to change the agreed Third Five-Year Plan (1966-70) from focusing on improving people's livelihood to preparing an all-out war against the "imperialists", particularly the United States.