REPORTS NEW SOURCE OF RUBBER DISCOVERED IN SINKIANG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600390012-5
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: April 12, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL (cL-r.'E?lublI
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPOR11
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY China DATE OF
INFORMATION 1951
SUBJECT Econom$%: - industry, rubber
Military - Strategic materials
HOW DATE DIST. /9 Apr 1951
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED H_ng Kong NO, OF PAGES 1
DATE
PUBLISHED 10, 2'5 Jan 1951
SUPPLEMENT TO
LANGUAGE Chinese REPORT NO.
U. ~~'_T;TUXITRD ^iR .8i; RtwX or 1.R10. - _ y, ], C? 31 AND f[,AS RYtM/NDKD D[R. ITS iRRX]NI NI]fION OR TM[ RtVtLfiIOX THIS IS UNEVALUATED iINFORMATION
REPORTS NEW SOURCE OF RUBBER
DISCOVERED IN SINKIANG
RUBBER PRODUCING PLANT GROWS WILD -- Hong Kong, Wen-hui Pao, 10 Jan 51
Peiping, 8 January (Hain-hua) -- A hitherto undiscovered area producing
wild rubber plants of the chrysanthemum-dandelion family (kok-sagyz) has
been located in. Sinkiang.
According to reports on preliminary tests, made at the laboratories of
tbgrMinistry of Heavy Industry in Peiping, the rubber produced from this
plant is equal to the raw rubber produced in Southeast Asia in elasticity,
glossiness, and industrial possibilities. Various agencies of the Peiping
government have sent investigators to the area to test the soil, meteorolog-
ical conditions, and the types of the plants with a view to their possible
large-scale culture in North, Northwest, or Northeast China.
MALAYA DEPORTEES WORK ON HAINAN RUBBER PLANTATIONS -- Hong Kong, Wen-hui Pao,
25 Jan 51
More than 150 Chinese rubber plantation workers, deported from Malaya,
are now working on rubber plantations on Hdinan!Idlaiid.
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