Also, the labor of the earlier camps was geared towards comparatively primitive tasks, such as repairing roads, mining, opening up the mountains and planting the fields. They were subsidized by the central government and had a very limited scope of production.
其次，早期勞改生產偏重在修路、挖礦、開山、種田，這種懲罰勞動是比較原始性的；勞改隊負擔由中央政府撥款，生產很有限。