ECONOMIC - INDUSTRIAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600230800-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 800
• Publication Date: June 23, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY China DATE OF
INFORMATION 1949
SUBJECT Ecuncmic - Industria
HOW
PUBLISHED Dail:9 newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Hong Ko
DATE
PUBLISHED 19, 27 May 1949
LANGUAGE Chinese
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SOURCE Chinese newspapers as indicated.
DATE DISTi Jun 1949
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT 10
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
HONG KOHG J$IHF,5S EXPANDING.
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BONG BANG INDITSTRIAL PTAiJ'15 IMEMARR ? - Kling-shang Jih-pao, 27 May 49
Registrations for new factories in Hong Kong have increased considerably
since the beginning of X949. During the first quarter of 1949, applications for
permits were submitted by 76 new factories. Out of this number, 58 were permitted
to begin operations. In cmparison, the average number of applicatiora per month
Sn .cgh8 was only c6, 24 of which received permits.
The city's industrial statistics ahoy the following increase in factories and.
number of workers since the end of March 1948.
Date Factories Workero Remus-ke
Mar 1948 1,143 61),659 35,770 male
24,880 female
Dec 1948 1,2'S 63,B73 ----
Mar 1949 1,284 65,271 39,563 male
25,708 female
The above table indicates that at the e.4 of March 1949, there was an increase.
of 1.41 factories or 12.34 percent since the end of March 1948. The increase in
number of workers diu t g the some period was 4,621 or 7.G2 percent. Frtm the and
of 1948 to the end of March 1949, there was an inereeoa of 1.5 percent in number ct
fac' rise and 2.19 percent is .jumbos of workers.
Since 1948, most progruse was made in the textile industry. Prm the end of
March 1948 to the end of M ''h 1949, the industry had been eanended 5y the este.b-
1ishaent ~if 20 additional factories and the hiring of 4,700 ter_ile workers.
The main types of indur`?riesc number of factories, and number of workers in
Hong Kong today are an follows:
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No of Factories Type of irld2 tr
13 Spinning
,54 Textiles
32 Bleaching, dyeing
200 Knitting
35 Undergarments
96 Printing
47 Rubber shoes
4 match
18 Cast iron works
2 Smelting works
2 Antimony refining
2 Msngs eee refining
log Metal works
5 n ae1wsre
73 Maohinery repairs
19 Dry docks
-- Electric street oar
2 Bus oampaniee
2 Aircraft repairs
Includes 686 working in newspaper offices.
Plan to increase number of workers to 1,000.
No of Workers
2,541
6,003
509
6,277
1,331
3,22b*
D277
1,1;76
5F6
426
17
54
4,045
1,46o
1,159
8,871
1,624
486
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XUARC-rWU BUST S AEPEESSEB -- Rua Shang Pw, 19 May 49
Reports from Kuang-chop (Canton) indicate that business conditions in
that city are rapidly deteriorating. Fi.iv percent of the o.t.ty'e factories have
ceased production. Many mercantile organizations have gone out of business.
Enterprises endeRvoring to carry on have precticelly all reduoed their produc-
tion.
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