ECONOMIC - SUGAR INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600220935-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 935
• Publication Date: May 13, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSI N. f ION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Economic - Sugar Industry
HOW
PUBLISHED National Government publication
WHERE
PUBLISHED Nan-uhing
DATE
PUBLISHED Oct 1947
LANGUAGE Chinese
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SOURCE Su&ar Indust
22, Executive Yuan.
DATE OF
INFORMATION 191+7
DATE DIST. /3 may 1949
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
The warm moist climate of this province is admirably adapted for oane-
growing, so it stands first among the mainland provinces in the sugar indus:xy.
Cane is grown in more than 50 heienr, the chief centers being Aei-ehiang and
Tau-chung on the T'o Chiang. Mostly native varieties of cane with poor pro-
ductivity and low sugar content are grown. Old methods are used, resulting in
high costs and in inferior product. Various types of sugar and sweetmeats are
made, which are sold locally.
During the war same refining plants were installed, but war and trans-
port cariitions greatly interfered with na-feting. With the c-aing of peace, the
industry has been slowly reviving with the help of the provincial Reeonstrueti.n
Office.
This province, especially Rai-man Island, is well adapted to cans grow-
ing, which Se well distributed over the more level tcpogrmphy. Both foreign
and native spec.va are rulti7atbd, and some modern mills Lave been installed.
In 1932, a 3-yeas' Plan was adopted, calling for an output of 500 tams of re-
fined sugar per day. Under this plan the industry was large:; a govermmsat
monopoly with both production and marketii2 strictly controlled. Unfortunately,
sugar making suffered much from the war and only two mills have resumed opera-
tim.
Cane is grown na??uly in tka southeastern heiems, where foreign strains
of the plant predominate. Lugar products in considerable quantity are exported
emmially from Hein-men, the best known being Fukien rock candy.
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4. K%rangai
Cane, mostly of the native variety, is grown in the southeastern heiena.
Coarse yellow sugar is the principal product. A modern mill capable of crushing
300 tons of cane daily, was set up. at $uei Bolen in 1934, but it was destroyed
by Japanese bombing and is still in ruins. Krrangai imports a portion of its
coarse yellow sugar,
5. YCiangei, Yunnan, Eieiohow, and Chekiang
In the southern Kiangei some cane is grown, and coarse sugar is made by
primitive methods. In 1940, a mill using modern machinery wan set up by the
provincial government at Zen Helen and produced one ton daily. During the war,
there was some shipping of sugar to-near-by provinces, where manufacture was
still in the handicraft stage,
Thirty helms in Yunnan grow cane of the native variety. Crude methods
are used to produce coarse sugars. The Haag-yang Company not up two refining
plants, but only one was able to secure any modern machinery. During the war,
it turned to the manufacture of alcohol, bringing the industry a spurt of
prosperity,. Slaps the war, the sugar business in Yunnan has been in the dol-
drum
Some cane is grown in the southwestern parts of Aw.ichow. Methods of
sugar making are primitive, and the product is coarse brown sugar. A mill using
modern machinery was set up at An-lung in 1941, and p"oduced better grades.
15'eichow province does not produce enough auger for its vim use and has to import
from Szechwan.
In Chekiang, unimproved varieties of cane from which brown sugar is
made by primitive methods are grown. Chih-hua and I-vu, near the center of the
province, are the chiaf producing areas.
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