ABSTRACT
On the question of the relationship between China and other countries, Chairman Mao has scientifically summed up the experience of China's revolution and construction and formulated for us a policy conforming to revolutionary dialectics. While emphasizing development of China's national economy on the basis of self-reliance, this policy also affirms the importance of learning from foreign countries and "making foreign things serve China" in our socialist construction. Owing to long years of oppression by the three big mountains – imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism – in old China, the productive forces developed at a very slow pace, and science and technology lagged far behind some countries. Following Chairman Mao's instructions, China has imported in the last twenty years or so equipment and technology urgently needed in the development of China's national economy and sciences. Premier Chou also issued many important instructions on introducing advanced foreign techniques. He advocated that foreign experience should be applied analytically and critically, not mechanically.
