Sino-American Joint Commission On Rural Reconstruction
Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction (JCRR) Established in 1948 on the mainland of China, the JCRR then moved to Taiwan, where its work has been widely credited with laying the agricultural basis in the 1950s and 1960s for Taiwan's outstanding economic growth in the following decades by a coordinated program of economic, social, and technical development.
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