PEACE APPEAL SIGNATURE GIVE CLUES TO POPULATION FIGURES IN CHINA

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• Publication Date: January 29, 1951
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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Sociological - Population, propaganda.
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED China
DATE
PUBLISHED 12 - 25 Oct 1950
LANGUAGE Chinese
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PEACE APPEAL SIGNATURES GIVE CIXTES
TO POPULATION FIGURES IN CHINA
As of 16 October 1950, the total Peace Appeal signatures num-
bered 192,109,938, which figure, according to the Dairen Jen-min
Jih-pao, represent 40.40 percent of the total Chinese population.
The following data was obtained from articles which appeared
in the 12 - 25 October 1950 issues of the Dairen Jen-min Jih-pao,
(DJM) Tsingtao Jih-pao'(T), Hankow Chiang-chiang Jih-pao CC
Fo-fei Huan- e1p Jih-pao (RUP), Shanghai Chieh-fang ao (SCFi,
Shanghai Ta Kung PaootSTK), and Tsinan Ta-chung Jih-pgo (TTC).
Locality
No of Signers
Percent of
Total Population
Source
Northeast
X8,981,584
70-Oa
DJMJ''25 Oct 50
Liaotung
6,402,642
75.30
DJM, 25 Oct 50
Heilungkiang
4,153,160
74.00
DJM, 25 Oct 50
Kirin
5,052,784
72.80
DJM, 25 Oct 50
Liaosi
5,094,952
67.00
DJM, 25 Oct 50
Sungkiang
3,336,353
62.50
DJM, 25 Oct 50
Jehol
1,896,303
38.00
DJM, 25 Oct 50
Dairen-Port Arthur
Area
746,571
80.00.
DJM, 25 Oct 50
Mukden
1,450,000
80.000
DJM, 25 Oct 50
North China and
Inner Mongolia
38,839,618
54.60
DJM, 25 Oct 50
Peiping
1,842,512
90.00
DJM, 25 Oct 50
Tientsin
1,703,177
80.00.6.0027
DJM, 25 Oct 50
Hopeh
18,619,149
62.00
DJM, 25 Oct 50
Chahar
2,081,998
48.00
DJM, 25 Oct 50
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North China and
Percent of
Inner Mongolia
No of Signers
Total Population
Suiyuan
1,106,872
46.7o
DJM, 25 Oct 50
Pingyuan
7,874,911
49.00
DJM, 25 Oct 50
Shansi
4,374,937
39.70
DJM, 25 Oct 50
Inner Mongolia
1,236,062
52.00
DJM, 25 Oct 50
Northwest China
10,857,350
40.00
Central and
South China
42,179,932
30.80
Honan
14,574,615
48.60
HCC, 13 Oct 50
Canton
1,040,000
74.30
T, 12 Oct 50
Southwest China
14,563,475
21.00
East China
56,011,834
13.0051,c
7
DJM, 25 Oct 50
57,368,740
_
41.00
SCF, 19 Oct 50
54,093,690
41.00
imp, 16 Oct 50
Shanghai
4,261,234
85.00
DJM, 25 Oct 50
972,356
90.00
DJM, 25 Oct 50
951,298
99.00
SCF, 19 Oct 50
Ho-fei
67,929
95.00
HHP, 21 Oct 50
Fou-yang
45,000
98.00
HHP, 21 Oct 50
Suchow
433,077
68.00
TTC, 13 Oct 50
Pang-You
264,353
86.00
HHP, 21 Oct 50
Shantung
19,908,422
49.77
DJM, 25 Oct 50
Fukien
4,503,016
40.40
DJM, 25 Oct 50
Chekiang
5,423,203
29.00
SCF, 19 Oct 50
N Kiangsu
10,533,249
50.50
SCF, 19 Oct 50
S Kiangsu
3,000,000
41.00
DJM, 25 Oct 50
5,762,685
50.00
STK, 25 Oct 50
N Anhwei
5,902,964
25.00
SCF, 19 Oct 50
7,624,320
34% of the
HHP, 21 Oct 50
22,000,000
S Anhwei
1,885,354
population
48.00
DJM, 25 Oct 50
Liu-an Special
Dist, N Anhwei
1,077,232
40.00
DJM, 25 Oct 50
Su-hsien Special
Dist, N Anhwei
1,627,000
27.80
HHP, 21 Oct 50
Fou-yang Special
Dist, N Anhwei
1,614,527
28.00
Te-cho'i Special
Dist, Shantung
2,011,303
TTC, 13 Oct 50.
Total
192,109,938
DJM, 25 Oct 50
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