NORTH CHINA ECONOMY IN 1952

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700130312-9
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• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 312
• Publication Date: September 16, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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REPORT
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DATE OF
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Economic - Industry, agricultur-
PUBLISHED Yearbook
PUBLISHED Hong Kong
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INFORMATION 1952
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NO. OF PAGES 2
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1953 Ching-chi .lien-pao (The 1953 Economic Yearbook), pp 60-62.
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INFORMATION FROM
NORTH CHINti ECONOMY IN 1952
LComment: This report summarizes an article entitled, "The
Development of North China Economy," by Chang Chi published in
the pro-Communist 1953 Ching-ehi Nien-pap (The 1953 Economic Year-
book) on 5 February 1953. The report gives data on industries,
agriculture, Stock breeding, forestry, and living standards in
North China
The 1952 industrial production of North China, including iron, steel,
coal, electric power, machinery, cement, and textiles, was 61 percent greater
than 1951 and was valued at 7,497,500,000,000 yuan. This surpassed by 24.9
percent the 6 trillion Yuan production goal set for 1952 under the "practice
economy, increase production" movement. The mining industry under the Cen-
tral People's Government surpassed by 46,6 percent the 800 billion yuan pro-
duction goal set for 1952 under Ch,- practice economy, increase production"
movement.
The Tientsin Steel and Iron Works surpassed its 1952 production goal ac
follows: circular steel rods, 125 percent; flat steel rods, 130 percent.
The T'ai-yuan Steel and Iron Works also surpassed its 1952 production goal as
follows: steel ingots, 100,19 percent; pig iron, 112.24 percent; and steel
construction material:, 120.3 percent.
Private industries were greatly developed in 1952. For example, the
Tung-ya Enterprises of Tientsin increased the employees of the Hemp Bags
Manufacturing Plant to 1,721 in 1952, and raised its production of hemp
b4$@ by 284.25 percent over 1949. The Pei-yang Cotton Yarn Factory of
Tientsin produced an average of 2,400 bundles of cotton yarn per month
during 1952.
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B. Agricultural Production
than the agricultural production of Chahar f?r 1952 was 19.4 percent greater
year prior to World War II. The foodstuff production of Suiyuan
for 1952 was 3.5 percent greater than 1949. The foodstuff production of
P 'u-Yang Special Administrative District, Pingyuan, for 1952 wr. 2,241,900
cattiegy or 22 percent greater than the year prior to World War II'* The
wheat production of Ronan for 1952 was 26.6 percent greater than 1951.
C. Stock Breeding and Forestry
The over-all 1952 livestock production of Suiyuan shoved 65.8 percent
increase over 1949. In the case of sheep and goats, however, there was an
incraa'se of 83.85 percent over 1949. Horse breeding in this province has
n$ton1y regained but has surpassed the prewar level as follower 1937,
151,000 bead; 1949, 116,000 head; end 1952, 166,800 head.
The lumber output of Hopeh is expected to reach 41,527.5 cubic meters
by 1957. Forestry work undertaken in Hopeh in 1952 included caring for
960,000 mou; reforesting, 42,000 non; aLd raising seedlings, 2,60C mou.
D. General Economic Conditions
In 1952, the number of savings accounts in the banks of Tientsin in-
creased 62 percent over 1951. A preliminary survey in August 1952 alone
shoved that some 160,000 workers were depooiting their savings with the
Tientsin People's Bank. The total number of depositors in Tientsin by the
end of 1952 was 395,387.
In 1952, the North China public and private industries gave the workers
40 to 80 percent wage increases as a result of production increases.
The purchasing power of rural and urban areas in Norch China for 1952
was 16.3 percent greater than 1951. However, Ronan rural purchasing power
for 1952 was only 12.2 percent greater than in 1951.
About 1,200 small-scale commodities exchange conferences were held in
North China during the first half of 1952. Transactions concluded at these
conferences included the sales of 780 million catties of fertilizers,
30,000 plows, and 92,916 water wheels.
During the first half of 1952 the sale of cloth and miscellaneous prod-
ucts in North China was 50 percent greater than during the same period in
1951.
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