COMPLETION OF CHING CHANG CONSERVANCY PROJECT; DENUNCIATION OF HUAI HO PROJECT CONTRACTORS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 599
• Publication Date: August 16, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
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COUNTRY China DATE OF
SUBJECT Economic'- Water conservancy INFORMATION 1952
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PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
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PUBLISHED New York; Hankow
DATE
PUBLISHED 8 Mar, 1 Jul 1952
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
COMPLETION OF CHING CHIANG CONSERVANCY PROJECT;
D HUNCIATION OF HUAI HO PROJECT CONTRACTORS
The General Headquarters of the Ching Chiang Flood Diversion
Project in the Middle Yangtse River Valley has announced the com-
pletfon of the whole project as of 20 June 1952.
A Huai*To Conservancy service cadre alleges that private con-
struction companies installed inferior locks on the Huai Ho in
Honan that have already partly washed out.
COMPLETION OF CHING CHIANG PROJECT ANNOUNCED -- New York, Hua-ch'iao Jih-pao,
1 Jul 52
The General Headquarters of the Ching Chiang Mood Diversion Project in
the Middle Yangtse River Valley has announced the completion of all phases of
the project on 20 June 1952.
The T'ai-ping-k'ou inlet lock, located at the Northwest corner of the
diversion basin, 1,054 meters long, is the largest lock in China. At the South-
west corner is the Huang-Shan-t'ou regulation lock, its gates weighing 800 tons.
The Central People's Government had ordered the completion of the project
before the beginning of the 1952 flood season. to complete the project,
7,800,000 cubic meters of earth were moved, 100,000 cubic meters of concrete
poured, several tens of thousands of cubic meters of rock facing laid, sev-
eral thousand tons of concrete reinforcing steel used and over 100 million
ton-kilometers of transportation employed.
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CONSERVANCY CADRE SCORES CONTRACTORS -- Hankov, Chang-chiang Jih-pao, 8 Mar 52
Li Tzu-liang, a cadre on the Huai Ho flood control project, writing as an
eye witnesa,.described some of the failures of construction work on the Chiao-
t'ing Hu'and Ma-chiang retention basin locks and the Tung-hu submerged locks
in Homan. He blamed the failures on four private contracting companies.
According to Li, the contractors, by padding their estimates, made a 1.7
billion yuan job cost the people 3.7 billion Yuan. In addition, he charged
that they used inferior materials and elipshod methods of work, Details of his
charges are as follows:
The companies failed to provide an engineer on the construction site to
oversee the job properly. The concrete they poured was poorly mixed, developed
many pockets, and already leaks badly. Part of the Ma-chiang locks 1?wve already
washed out. In constructing the steel lock gates, scraps of old plate metal,
insecurely fastened together, were used instead of whole plates. For the attach-
ment of the draw bar to the lock, specifications required the use of a solid
piece of 1.2-inch steel. Instead, thr contractors welded two 0.5-inch pieces
together as a substitute.
The contract called for the steel lock gates to be inspected by officials
and accepted before being moved to the installation site. The contractors
hurriedly painted the gates red and rushed them to the site without notifying
the inspectors. The bolts used were of inferior quality, and when many of them
broke, concrete reinforcing rods were used as substitutes, Since the flood
season was approaching, the contracts s hastily and carelessly set up the lock
gates and turned over the job as completed.
Li called for speedy investigation and punishment of these four companies.
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