1385	 Computer Technology in Communist China -	 Based on information from translations of Communist Chinese news items and periodical literature for the period computer technology in China is reviewed under the following headings initial planning organization and educational aspects of computer technology and automation machine development progress two major specific machines in - with Soviet aid a vacuum in - due to the withdrawal of Soviet aid then presumably all-Chinese-made machines from to the present computer applications the trend of automation control of production processes rather than data processing and the Yun Ch ou Hsueh Science of Operation and Programming campaign of - during which an attempt was made to bring concepts such as linear programming to ordinary Chinese workers and peasants. Communist China is adjudged to have a marginal computer capability with most of its machines probably being of a binary nature however a turning point may have been reached in mid- .
