CENTRAL , SOUTH CHINA TO SET UP RADIO LISTENING STATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2011
• Sequence Number: 454
• Publication Date: August 2, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION cowI'TONFIBEVIIAr
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY China DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
SUBJECT Economic - Communications, radio, telephone,
telegraph
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Peiping; Hankow; Tientsin; Canton; Hong Kong
DATE
PUBLISHED
LANGUAGE
25 May - 9 Jul 1950
Chinese
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REPORT NO.
CENTRAL, SOUTH CHINA TO SET UP
RADIO LISTENING STATIONS
STATION PERSONNEL TO BE TRAINED -- Hong Kong Wen-hui Pao, 9 Jul 50
Peiping, 7 July -- In accordance with the decision of the Central News
Administration of the Central People's government to establish radio listen-
ing stations throughout China, the commander of the Central and South China
Military Control Commission issued the following notice to the head of each
hsien under his command on 26 June 1950:
1. All contemplated radio listening stations must be set up before Oc-
tober 1950.
2. Each hsien must innnediately select personnel to operate the listening
stations.
3. The work of the listening stations includes receiving news, official
orders, notices, news comments, lectures from the Central government, Central
and South China Regional District, and local broadcasting stations, and.dis-
seminating this information to the Party members and people as quickly as possi-
ble by mimeographed sheets, blackboards, etc.
Another news item from Peiping stated that, to meet the October deadline,
the Central and South China' People's Broadcasting Station will begin train-
ing personnel for listening stations in Hopeh Province from 15 July 1950, and
those in Ronan Province from 5 August 1950. The personnel of listening sta-
tions in Kvangtung Province will be trained by the Canton People's Broadcast-
ing Station during July and August.
Atotal]of.1;2D0 reoetvaase>;s,:idiich will be distributed in this area, are being
purchased from the People's Radio Equipment Factory.
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50X1-HUM
25 May 50
The wave lengths on which the Chinese-language radio programs from Radio
Moscow can be heard in Peiping are as follows:
Peiping Time
0600-0628
1530-1558
1630-1658
1800-1828
1900-1930
2200-23D0
1530 to 1930 programs
can be picked up on
379.3, 476.9, 1,666,
25.53, 422.5, or 491
Either on 16.81, 19.82,
or 25.4
COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT FOUND IN CHUNGKING -- Hankow Chang-ching Jih-pao,
25 May 50
Chungking, 22 May (Hein-hua) -- In addition to 40,000 tons of various metal
products already found in the warehouses in Chungking, the property liquidat-on
workers in Southwest China discovered several thousand tons of communication
equipment in Chungking. Included were: 818 wireless telegraph receivers and
transmitters, 70 long-range carrier wave transmitters and small electric motors,
270 electric generators, 4,448 telephone and telegraph equipment and switch
boards, 57,327 radio tubes, 77,415 spare parts, and 308 tons of iron and steel
wire.
TIENTSIN POWER PLANT TO INCREASE OUTPUT -- Tientsin Jih-pao, 31 May 50
The No 2 generator of the Tientsin No 1 power plant is being repaired to
increase output to the maximum of 15,000 kilowatts. Output of this generator
before the liberation was 11,000 kilowatts, and with minor repairs it was in-
creased to 14,000 kilowatts.
ESTABLISH RADIO MATERIAL FACTORY -- Hong Kong Wen-hui Pao, 2 Jun 50
Peiping, 1 June (Hsin-hua) -- The People's Radio Equipment Factory was es-
tablished by the Central News Administration in Peiping on 1 June 1950. This
factory will manufacture radio transmitters, receivers, phonograph records, loud-
speakers, and various other radio parts. The equipment for this factory came
from the Radio Materials Repair Shop and the People's Phonograph Record Factory
formerly located in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
BEGIN EMERGENCY TELEPHONE,' TELEGRAPH SERVICE -- Canton Nan-fang Jih-pao, 2 Jun'50
The Canton Communication Bureau is now accepting emergency telephone and
telegraph services to the following places: telephone service to Chang-sha,
Shao-kuan, Tsang-vu, Chissng-men, and Chung-shan; telegraph service to Peiping,
Shanghai, Hankow, Chang-shr7:Heng-yang, Kan-hsien, Foochow, Amoy, Swatow, Shao-
kuan, Ch'ing-yuan, and Chiang-men.
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