ECONOMIC - INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600250019-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: August 23, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY
SUBJECT
HOW
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENIIIPORT
Commilnist China Economic - Industry
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Hong Kong
DATE
PUBLISHED 26 Jul 1949
LANGUAGE Chinese
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DATE D I ST. A3 Aug 1949
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
NORTHWEST STEEL MILL RESUMES OPERATTON;_
NORTH CEIWA'S PRIVATE' ENTERPRISES FLOORISL
The Northwest Steel Mill at T'ai-yUan, taken over by liberation forces
on 20 April 1949, is again in operation. The mill was protected by the
workers and was turned over undamaged.
Within the factory site of 275 acres, installations occupy an area of
42,146.8 square meters. The principal installations in this steel mill are
two steel refining furnaces (daily output, 150 tone), one 200-ton and one
50-ton iron-emalting furnace, 11 K'ao-pei Chinese transliteration of a
foreign name7 hot-air furnaces, one medium and one small steel-rolling machine,
3 high-pressure boilers (hourly output capacity, 23 tons of steam), two
5,000-kilowatt and one 6,000-kilowatt generators, one coke cvm (daily output,
240 tons), and other small-scale equipment. When all machines are in use, they
employ a force of about 10,000 workers.
The main products of the mill are railroad tracks, mountain guns, trench
mortars, artillcry shells, Iron wire, lead wire, nails, gasoline, pitch, pure
naphtha, etc., totaling about 20 different ittTms.
Record monthly output figures include 1,342,490 tons of steel ingots,
1,995,020 tons of pig iron, 20,712 tons of gasoline and 23,379 tons of nails.
OUTPUT UP, PRICES DOWN -- Hue Shang Pao, 26 Jul k9
P81-ping, 25 July 1949 (NCNA) -- Private enterprises in Tien-thing,
Pei-ping, Chi-nan, and other large cities in the liberated areas are
doing a flourishing business.
The Tung-ya (East Asia) Industrial Corporation has already supplied
51,000 pounds of Auatraliein wool yarn to the woolen mills. It is now
negotiating for the purchase cf machinery of various types and also is
preparing to,open a second heap bag factory.
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RESTIIC ,
The. output of Ylorth Cbina'a largest telephone- and owitchbo'rd-mauufaoturixog
company, the Tien-thing Electric Company, has reached the prelibemtion ls~rel,''
and plane are now being made to increase prurient output by 600 percent.
At present there are 19 flour mills operated in Pei-p?ing,with a
total maximum monthly output of 400,090 sacks of flour.
The number of vegetable oil factories in Chi-non has increased frca 19
before the liberation to 49 at the present time. Their total output in June
1949 was 492,700 pounds in comparison to 195,000, pounds produced in April.
Prices of.commoditiee are coming down as a result of the increase in
production. In 1949 itcoat a' farmer 195 pounds of wheat to get 130 pounds
of bean cake, but now he can get it with 104 pounds.
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