ECONOMY OF NORTHWEST CHINA IN 1952

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700130352-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 352
• Publication Date: September 18, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE
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CENTRALINT ELIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
Economic - Inu.rstry, agriculture, forestry
Yearbook
Hong Kong ?
5 Feb 1953
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1952
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT N~.
1953 Ching-chi Mien-pao (The 1953 Economic Yearbook), pp 66-68.
P.COIi01dY OF 210RTIi'rliST CHINA III 1952
~omment: This report summarizes an article entitled, "North-
west Econom? Steadily Marches On," ty Ko Wei published in the pro-
Communist 1953 Chiug-chi I:ien-nao (The 1953 Economic Yearbook) cn
5 February 1953? The renox?t gives data on agriculture, industry,
forestry, stock raising, water conservation, and trade with minor-
ity groups in the Ilorthwest.~
is also known for its production of salt, cotton, wool, herbs,ylumber,~and
total deposits. Iron and coal deposits located in Shensi-are .owVbeij~ a
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^-` According^to-the 1951 survey, petroleum and coal deposits of the North-
A. General
Tn 1952 basic construction investments in the Ilorthwest were twine as
great as in 1951. Work has begun on ?8 industrial corstruction protects,
46 water.ccnservation protects, and tx?ansportatiun protects. Plans ,o
construct electric power plants, chemical plants, and cement manufacturing
plants in T ien-shut and Lan-cltou pre also being formulated.
B. Agriculture
than in the ear - ?- ?-`~~"
y prior to World War II, and of cotton, 13.53 percent greater
th
i
an
n the highest production year priox? to World War II,
1952 are. 60,000 tons of wheat, 40,000 tons of rice, SG,OOG tona~oP miscel-
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Since y.i~ liberation to October 1952, Tsinghai produced 95 million
catties of foodstuff sad 14 million catties of edible o11. A total of
630,000 mou of land has been placed under cultivation in Tainghai since the
liberation.
The Northwest surpassed, by 16.3 perceut, its industrial production goal
set for 1952 under the practice econotgy, increase production" movement,
Tsinghai industrial production for 1952 reached 6 billion yuan and exceeded
1950 by 223 percent and 1951, by 83 percent.
Durtng the past 3 years, a total of 15,603 factories, schools, hospitals,
and camps were constructed in Sinkiang,
D. Forestry, Stock Raising and Water Conservation
Between Yu-lin, Shensi, and Chiu-ch'uan, Kansu, 129,000 mou of trees
:ire planted to protect the farms from sandstorms, The 1953 plan ~f the
Northwest calls for the refures:ation of 950,000 mou and for the care of 3,6
million mou of forests,
Livestock production for 1951 in the Northwest was 13.3 percent greater
than for 1950 and 1.83 percent greater than for 1939. Wool production for
1951 in the Northwest was 7 percent greater than for 1950. Tainghai wool
production for the spring of 1952 was 36 percent greater than for the same
period in 1951.
From the liberation up to 1951, more than 40 million mou of farm land
had been irrigated in the Northwest. Jn 1952 alone, 7,4 million mou of farm
land were irrigated,
F. Trade With Minorit Gr~up^
From Sanuary 1950 to May 1952, the iiorthwrst State-0perated Trading
Company alone purchased 34,7 million catties of local nroducta, valued at
160 billion yuan, and 40 million catties of wool from the minority groups.
From the liberation to August 1952, state-operated trading companies in the
Nortcn+est purchased a total of 67 million catties of wool and 5.,48 million
pieces of ?ur fror,~ the minority groups living in the grazing areas, The mi-
nority groups in Sinkiang exported 13'+ percent more furs and local products
and imported 72,05 percent more industrial products in 1952 than in 1950,
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