CHING CHIANG FLOOD DIVERSION PROJECT ABOUT TO START

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• Publication Date: July 8, 1952
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CHINO CHIANG FLOOD DIVERSION PROJECT ABOUT TO START
Final drafts of plans have been adopted and the general head-
quarters and an engineering committee formed to carry out the Ching
Chiang Flood Diversion Project in Hupeh. Peasant, technical, and
military labor and control forces, numbering 200,000 are converging
on the scene, and materials and supplies are steadily flowing to the
site. The plans have been drawn up with the advice of the Soviet
water conservancy expert Bukhov. The project will soon be under way.
Numbers in parentheses refer to appended characters.
In accordance with plans of the Government AdministrationCouacilofthe Cen-
tral People's Government and an implementing order of the Central and South China
Military and Administrative Committee, the organization for carrying out the
Ching Chiang flood diversion project has been complet..d. Men and materials are
rapidly being moved into position for speedy execution of the Program.
The Ching Chiang Flood Diversion Project Engineering Committee is under
the chairmanship of Li Hsien-nien (1) and the Ching Chiang Flood Diversion Proj-
ect. Engineering General Headquarters is under the command of Tang Tien-chi (2).
Ting Tien-chi and Liu Pei (3) are vice-chairmen of the committee. Wang Shu-
sheng (4), Lin I-Shan (5), and Hsu Tzu-wei (6) are vice-commanders of the General
Headquarters. The other members of the engineering committee are Cheng Shao-
wen (7) secretary-general, Huang K'o-ch'eng (8), Ch'eng Chien (9), Chao I-
min (105, Chao Erh-lu (31), Plan Cheng-tao (12), Ch'i Chung-huan (13), Chang
Kuang-t'sai (14), Li I-chih (15), Lin I-Shan Hsu Tzu-wei, Wang Shu-sheng; Yuan
Chen (16), Hsu Chueh-fei_ (17), Cheng Shao-wen, Liu Hui-nung (18), Tien Wei-
yang (19), Li I-cii'ing (20), Liu Tzu-hou (21), Chang Chih-i (22), and Jen
Shih-shun (23). Li Hsien-nien is general political commissar and Yuan Chen is
deputy general political commissar.
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At present, some 200,000 peasant workers, regular laborers, technicians,
army officers, and combat troops have converged on the area. Students and
teachers of the conservancy and construction training departments of the Wu-
han, Hunan, and Cbung-shan universities and the Wu-ch'aog Higher Industrial
School, numbering 230 persons, reached the area at the end of March. In the
nearby Special Administrative Districts of Hopeh and Hunan several million
support workers are being mobilized to supply the working force with materials
and food.
The Yangtze River is covered with boats carrying materials and supplies
shuttling rapidly back and forth. Hundreds of thousands of tons of materials
are coming in from Shanghai, the Northeast, T'ai-yuan, Hankow, Nanking, and
ot%:.r places. For hundreds of li along both banks of the Ching Chiang there
are countless workers' huts. Railway workers are feverishly laying down light
rail lines all over the working area.
For 2 years, preliminary surveys, drill tests, etc., have been going on
under the direction of the Yangtse River Conservancy Committee. In the spring
of 1951 the dikes on the east bank of the Hu-tu Ho and the North bank of the
An-hhiang Chiang were strengthened. In January 1952, final drafts of plans
for the Ching Chiang Flood Diversion Project were adopted. Large numbers of
cadres have recently been sent to the site, and in 10 days Hupeh Province has
mobilized 70,000 peasants for the work.
The plans for this project have been formulated under the direction and
inspection of the Soviet conservancy expert Bukhov. Originally, it was planned
to use 500,000-600,000 tons of sand and gravel which would have to be trans-
ported several hundred li from I-ch'ang and I-yang. With the aid of Bukhov
it was discovered that local gravel and some local sand would be very suit-
able. Thus, much money and labor can be saved. Formerly, one tug could tow
only six barges, but now by adoption of the Soviet technique, one tug can
simultaneously tow 22 barges.
Several hundred medical workers are arriving at the area. The post office
and the Peoples Bank have established branch offices on the site. Ninety
thousand local i_sidents are preparing to move out of the area.
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