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This article focuses on the book "China: The Land and the People," by Gerald F. Winfield. Its a pungent, earthy book full of the biological realities that chain most Chinese to a poverty level of existence. Those Americans who loudly proclaim the solution of China's problems in a few catch phrases should be required to read the entire book down to the last Liver fluke. Perhaps some of them will then join the author in believing that "there is no simple, no easy, no quick solution" for China. First chapters down the long winding path on the south bank of the Yangtze from the United Nations Picture News Office.

The article reports on the participation of political leader Mao Zedong to the World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation in Yangtze River, China on July 16, 1966. It states that Zedong was able to swim and to float nine miles downstream in 65 minutes, taking politics at times with a provincial party secretary. A soldier Liu Hsin-fa stated that Zedong was very enthusiast to the activity for good his health.