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I guess this is the little red Chinese book version they learnt in their schools ....
No its the version that the Vietnamese are saying.
In fact, Chinese democracy activists, who hate the CPC, actually have a LOWER casualty estimate than the CPC itself (they say only 9000 died). Actually, I was misinformed, as maximum Western estimates are 20000, less than half of what I thought they were.
Sino-Vietnamese War - eNotes.com Reference
Chinese casualties
To this day, both sides of the conflict describe themselves as the victor. The number of casualties is disputed, with some Western sources putting PLA casualties at more than 20,000 throughout the war. Chinese democracy activist Wei Jingsheng told western media in 1980 the Chinese troops had suffered 9,000 deaths and more than 10,000 wounded during the war [25], but recent leak shows that the PLA had 6,954 killed and 14,800 wounded[4], and 238 Prisoners of War [26] in the course of the war.
Vietnamese casualties
There are no independently verifiable details of Vietnamese casualties; like their counterparts in the Chinese government, the Vietnamese government has never announced any information on its actual military casualties. The Nhan Dan newspaper[23] the Central Organ of the Communist Party of Vietnam claimed that Vietnam suffered more than 200,000 civilian deaths during the Chinese invasion[23] and earlier on May 17, 1979, reported statistics on heavy losses of industry and agriculture properties[23].