SURVEY OF FLOOD DAMAGE AND CONSERVATION PROJECTS IN CHINA, AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1952

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700100431-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 431
• Publication Date: February 9, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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PUBLISHED China
DATE
PUBLISHED 3 Avg - 30 Sep 1952
LANGUAGE Chinese
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SURVEY OF FLOOD DAMAGE AND CONSERVATION PROJECTS
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~~~'Y~ Steady rains for 20 days in the Yen-ch'eag, I:Saageu,
area have resulted in much spoil8;e of both standing and harvested
grain. Incomplete infornatioa from all over the Yep-ch-eng Special
Admiaietrat*_ve District indicates that over 600,DD0 mou (one mou
dire five by the Ccommunist Party Committeemo4 the Yennch'eagearee A
hsa ordered all party and government staffs into the country to aid
in the salvage vork.
Heald rates al err the, upper: and mtddle reaches of the Huai Hp,
,vlthia precipitation of from 150.to 425 millimeters, have provided e
'a feet, xith' favorable results,,~:of? lthe .cuaservation xork ;;anted out
ia?the area during the last 2''Yehre. ,
Delegates attending a Basic Coatruction Conference called by the
:Jor*h Aahvei Administration Office saw a bright future for both food
and industrial crops in North Aahvei vueo ail the engineering protects
nox in process is the Huai Ho Basin in North %iangau are completed.
Conservation activities on the Yellox River diu~ing the last 3 years
have strengthened the dikes along 1,300 kilometers of the stream in
Ronan, Pingyuan, and Shantung. They will sox euccessfuily contain
the pressure of a floe of 23,000?cubic meters per second.
York on the dam of the Fo-tzu-ling reservoir, a part of the Hue:
Ho conservancy systEm, xas:etepped up in August. Year-rotnd river nevi-
gatioa x111 be stabilized and 500,000 mou of land irrigated by eater
fro^t this reservoir. Thy Pai-shan irrige'?.on canal. in Anhxei. is near-
ing ro~epletinn. A d^ai?age tunnel, 1,235 meters long, under the Grand
Csaal in northern Kisngeu has been completed, The re-direction of the
I Ho in Shentung has eliminated ail ilocd threats to the farmers in the
area,]
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CROPS INUNDATED ARO~ YEN-CII'FNG, KIAk1GSi ._ yang-thou, Su-pei Jih-pao, 3 Sep 52
Steady rains have been falling since 23 nu~?ist in the Yen-ch'eng Special
Administrative District of Kiangsu, Great quantities of rice, harvested, unhar-
vested, and in storage, have been inundated., From'10 to 15 percent of tk.~s grain
has sprouted, Moat of the unharvested rice ha= lodged. Both men and women have
been mobilized everywhere in the area to dig drainage ditches and operate pumps.
GOVERNMENT STAFFS DIRECT SALVAGE OPERATIONS -- yang-thou, Su-pei Jih-pao,
8 Sep 52
Incomplete reports from all parts of the Yen-ch'eng Special Administrative
District reveal that over 600,000 mou of crops have been inundated. Cotton and
beans are spoiling, 3O percent of the rire has sprouted, and corn is heating
and mildewing. Staffu of the Special Administrative District and hsien govern-
ment offices have gone out to organize the rural areas for drainage and salvage
measures.
BY 2~ August, workers in She-yang Hsien had drained PO percent of the inun-
dated land in that hsien. All labor resources have been mobilized for round-
the clock effort. In Yen-ch'eng Hsien 100,000 people have harvested ].00,000
mou of crops in the rain. In one area of 1'en-rh'eng Rsien every available tem-
ple, as wall as all other empty t uildings, is filled with sheaves spread out to
dry, Wood ashes and lime have been mixed with threshed grain to hasten the dry-
ing, Intensive salvage efforts are continuing.
PARTY COMMPlTEE ISSUES FLOOD SALVAGE DIRECTIVE -- yang-thou, :u-pei Jih-pao,
9 sap 52
Tens of thousands of mou of crops both above and below ground have been in-
undated and crop spoilage is great according tr_ a directive issued by the Yen-
ch'eng Committee of the Communist Party, The directive states:
1. Drainage activities and crop salvage are the tasks of Pirst priority
for all party members end peopl
2, All hsien authorities and staff memb