CANTON REORGANIZES ITS CH'U

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 29, 2011
• Sequence Number: 630
• Publication Date: August 10, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENT llf JOEJ1IN
? CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT 5OX1-HUM
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Political - Municipal government
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Canton
DATE
PUBLISHED 28 Jun 1950
LANGUAGE Chinese
TNuS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTINS TNa NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THS UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANINS OF ESFIONASE ACT SO
N. S. C.. SI AND SS. AS ANU000. ITS TRANSMISSION 09 THE REVELATION
OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANT MANNER TO Al USAUTNONIIEO PERSON IS FRO-
NISITEO IT LAW. ES-RODUCTICM OF THIS FORM IS PROIINITEO.
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
DATE DIST. /V Aug 1950
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
CANTON REORGANIZES ITS CH'U
On 24 June 1950, the Canton Municipal government r::organized its munici-
pal ch'u (-i TE.,) and suburban ch'u (~f ., ). The following data gives
the name of the ch'u, its population, and its composition.
Ta-tung (), 71,911. Consists of the former Ta-tung Ch'u, Tung-
shan Ch'u (t J-i Ig. ), and Chien-chien Ch'u (1!) ii . & ). Mostly residential
and some business areas.
Yung-han (. & i& ) 126,155. Consists of the former Yung-han Ch'u
and Tung-ti Ch'u ( Y ). All business area.
Hui-fu ( A,7 ), 133,698. Consists of the former Hui-fu Ch'u and
Ching-hai.Ch'u ( IL ). All business area.
T'ai-p'ing ( ), 116,147. Consists of the former T'ai-p'ing Ch'u
and Chen-yang Ch'u I ). All business area.
Ch'ang-shou (c.. ), 151,458. Consists of the former Ch'ang-show
Ch'u and Hsi-ch'anl Ch'u including the areas a st of K'ang-wang
Chieh-chih ($L' _:L i.. 4i south of Ssu-lung Ta-chih (It:1, It J4~J ), and east of
the first alley ( - r ), San-sheng (.- . ). Thickly populated. Small
business and residential areas.
Li-wan (t ), 64,960. Consists of the former Huang-sha Ch'u
( 'J ILL, ), and Feng-yuan Ch'u ( ice % 1 . ), includ areas east of Lung-
ching-hsi-lu (, if ~d7 W), up to Feng-shui-chi ( , ) . ? Residential area,
small business and handicraft industry area.
Yueh-hsiu ( L ), 1}1,244. Consists of the former Hsiao-pei Ch'u
Te-hsuan Ch'u (4%, ' ), and Hsi-shah Ch'u (,V J-I in-
cluding areas from south of Te-ni-lu (40 9(~) to east of Hsin-ch'iao Ta-tih'
(Ji0k J),
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Ho-nan (=ij 1 ), 135,514. Consists of Meng-sheng Ch'u ( 7 L. ),
Hung-te Chu and Hai-chIuang Chu ( s ) adjacent to south
shore of the Chu Chiang ( * ;L ). Small business and industrial area. Meng-
sheng has a small suburban area, Chi-li-ts?un (, but no rural areas;
therefore, it was placed under a municipal ch'u>
Chu-chiang (l~ ), 44,802. No changes. Covers all river areas. Most
residents live in houseboats,.
Sha-mien Control Office (;')A I It *04), 1,903. Organized from the former
Sha-mien Chu Office (4 f u&PI ), Beautiful residental section atop hill; many
foreigners reside there. Foreigners not included in population figures.
Suburban Ch'u
There are no changes for Li-chiao Chu (,t % Ls ), Fang-ts'un Ch'u
( $4 L ), Hsin-chou Chu ( *I ), Sha-ho Ch'u (;r;oj ), and San-
yuan Chu ( _ k, _ ).
Shih-p'ai 4 Consists of the former Shih-p'ai Ch'u except
Mei-hua-ts'un ( c, . ) and-Tung-shan (qt J.I ) which were incorporated
into Ta-tung Ch'u ( L ) because they have residential areas.
Hsi-ts'un (-ibf ), 40,1.39. Consists of suburban areas of Nan-an Ch'u
(47 LIA,) and Hsi-shan Chu ( f Ji JX_ ), including areas under control of
U ) Chih office
Tsai- un ch'iao (#j -Ax ~j), and Liu-hua-ch?iao
( ~J ); suburban area of Feng-yuan Ch'u including San-sha
and area controlled by Plan-teang Chih Office ( 3I~3 ,'i); and
suburban area of Hsi-ch?an Ch'u (,ib L. ), namely, area under control of
Hsiao-mei Chih Office ('l' 1 Alf ,). Mostly farmers live here. Hsi-ts'un has
large factories.
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