China and the Third Line Defense
During the Third Line Defense, Chairman Mao responded to the twin threats of US and Soviet military action by carrying out a massive program of military industrialization in the remote areas of western China. The intention was to move industrial production away from the first and second lines of defense (large cities and coastal areas) where they would be more vulnerable to attack, and to relocate them in frontier zones in a dispersed and secretive pattern.
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