The foundation of the people?s democratic government is the worker-peasant alliance. Representatives of the working people, workers and peasants in particular, actively took part in the work of the people?s government. Yang Mingzhen, a Miao woman, became a deputy county magistrate of Lushan County of the Miao and Dong Nationalities Autonomous Prefecture in southeast Guizhou. Yang Mingzhen (left) is shown here at her studies in 1956.
