GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHES GRAIN-CONTROL PLAN; USSR GETS QUANTITIES OF CHINESE FOODSTUFFS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 313
• Publication Date: April 18, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
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ENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORTI
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
HOW
DATE OF
INFORMATION
Economic - Grain distribution
1949 - 1950
PUBLISHED
DATE DIST.
Daily newspapers
Apr 1950
WHERE
PUBLISHED
DATE
Hong Kong
PUBLISHED
17, 21 Mar 1950
LANGUAGE
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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GOVERNMERT ESTABLISHES GRAIN-CORTROL PLAN;
USSR GETS QUANTITIES OF CHINESE FOODSTUFFS
VAST GRAIN DISTRIBUTION MOVEMENT IN PROGRESS -- Hong Kong Wen-hui Pao, 17 Mar 50
Peiping, 15 February (Hsin-hua) -- A vast, historically unprecedented, nation-
wide movement of grain is occurring in China today to feed the cities and famine
areas, to equalize supply and demand, and to balance prices of grain and cotton. At
the same time, it is reducing the need for foreign food imports, which in previous
years reached the great figure of 5 billion pounds in a single year. This expendi-
ture, which not only used up much foreign exchaiZe but also left some grain-produc-
ing areas of the country glutted with an unsalable crop of surplus grain, was due
to the lack of an over-all plan of action.
The over-all plan of action now being carried out has been made possible only
because of the present unified control of the resources of the entire country. Last
winter, the Ministry of Finance convened a national grain conference at which it
was decided that .. e public grain collected throughout the whole nation would be at
the disposal of the ministry, and that aside from direct allotments for the mili-
tary, the Ministry of Trade might place the balance on the market. With this sup-
ply at its disposal, the state-operated grain companies can take the lead over the
private operators.
Two additional conferences of those responsible for the handling of the grain
have resulted in a good understanding of the production and market requirements of
the country and a comprehensive plan for the feeding of all surpluses into the
markets where they are needed. The result will be a leveling of prices everywhere
and the prevention of pockets of excessively high prices.
DEVELOPS FAMINE RE-TIL'v PLANS _- Hong Kong Wen-hui Pao, 17 Mar 50
Two recent conferences held by the Ministry of Trade of the Central government
have revealed that there are sizeable surpluses of cereals in the Northeast, Inner
Mongolia, Central and South, and Southwest China over and above the needs of the
military and the local population.(( It is planned, therefore, to take part of the
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Northeast's and all of Inner Mongolia's surplus to relieve the shortage in North
China. The greatest shortage is in East China including Shanghai. For the relief
of this area, another portion of the surplus from the Northeast, and that from
Central and South China and Szechwan will be employed. Other smaller sur
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Also, 260 million pounds of rice can be moved from Hunan and Kiangsi into
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s of wheat have already been shipped to Hsi-an from
Horan to maintain a price balance between cotton and grain.
From the Northeast, 156 million pounds of various cereals have already reached
the famine area in Hopeh. One third of the Inner Mongolian surplus has already
reached Peiping. Northeast and Yangtze valley rice is reaching Shanghai in great
volume.
OVER ONE MILLION TONS OF FOODSTUFF SHIPPED TO USSR -- Hong Kong Hu-shang Pao,
21 Mar 50
Based on information reporte' frog Shanghai, more than 854,000 tons of food-
stuff from southern Y-iangsu and &nhvei ver? shipped by the CCF to Northeast China
to be rerouted to the USSR bet' _n May and December 1949, and in January 1950 an
additional 300,000 tons were shipped.
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