IMAGERY ANALYSIS SERVICE NOTES

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• Publication Date: July 3, 1969
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Imagery Analysis Service Notes
3 July 1969
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The IMAGERY ANALYSIS SEI? VICE NOTES is a periodic publication
of the DDI Imagery Analysis Servw -e, the departmental PI organization of
CIA.
This publication highlights significant or timely intelligence items derived
from photography.
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IMAGERY ANALYSIS SERVICE NOTES NO. 17/69
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Status of the Iron and Steel incustry
A photographic study of to.,, major and 29, seconcary Chinese iron
and steel plants indicates that the expansion and rnc:ern i zat i on rogram
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Chinese have completed or are constructing additiona basic oxygen
furnaces (BOFs), open hearth ?-u naces, rolling mills and plants.
At least one and probab / we new B',-)Fs are now operational and three
are under construction. Thin m.kes a total of 10 arl probably II BOFs
observed. Six and probably eig t open hearth turnace.s have been constructed
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In addition to expansion c modernization at e> sting facilities,
work continued at a moderate -a-e on a new iron and steel plant at Chiu-
chuan and at another possible cie at Jen-ho-chieh. xcluding uneconomical
facilities, the 33 plants st'id" d a peared to be ope ating near maximum
)roduction levels during late;
=or detailed descriptions )f these plants, exc iding Jen-ho-chieh,
see IAS report Selected Iron and Steel Plants, China, RCS 13/0241/69,
.June 1969.
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