On October 16, 1964, China exploded its first atomic bomb. On April 24, 1970, a Long March 1 rocket put the country’s first satellite, Dongfanghong 1, into orbit.
The Party’s website sums up the program as dali xietong, yonggan dengpan, “great cooperation, daring to climb,” and presents it as an example of the “institutional advantage of concentrating forces to accomplish big things.”