a backward country [nation]
in a poor and backward country.
To an economically backward country like ours both alliances are indispensable at present.
We need to accelerate the pace of change in our backward country.
As a backward country's financing system, the mail bank system can be used for reference for a developing country.
It is difficult for us to get things done, because China is a big and backward country.
It will take a long time and strenuous efforts to turn such a poor and backward country as China into an advanced, industrial, socialist country.
Back in America, when she had asked Heng to someday show her his country, he had said, "China is a poor, backward country."
To improve the living conditions of the people of such an economically backward country as ours, we can only rely on hard struggle, not just envy the fish in the near future.
They can adduce historical instances, such as the destruction of the Sung Dynasty by the Yuan and the destruction of the Ming Dynasty by the Ching, to prove that a small but strong country can vanquish a large but weak one and, moreover, that a backward country can vanquish an advanced one.
