TELEVISION - April 7, 1992

Basic Training: China’s hard-line culture chiefs have sent 100 television employees to live with peasants and farmers for several months to learn basic values from the masses. The Ministry of Film, Television and Radio sent another batch of its television staff for six months of army training last year. Meanwhile, the head of China’s Film Bureau, Teng Jinxian, said in a magazine interview that film workers also should be sent out to the grass-roots provinces. The moves are reminiscent of a 50-year-old idea of the late chairman Mao Tse-tung, who once called on cultural workers to go out to the grass roots and live and work for the people.