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Serving as a form of technology diplomacy, this trip advanced two main purposes for the newly established country \u2013 to build up closer ties with \u2018foreign friends\u2019 who advocated international peace in the context of the Korean War, and to demonstrate China's own technical capabilities and achievements as part of the national campaign of \u2018peaceful construction\u2019 of the early 1950s. 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