ECONOMY OF SOUTHWEST CHINA IN 1952

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2011
• Sequence Number: 353
• Publication Date: September 18, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Economic - Industry, agriculture, cooperatives
HOW
PUBLISHED Yearbook
WHERE
PUBLISHED Hong Kong
DATE
PUBLISHED 5 Feb 1953
LANGUAGE Chinese
DATE DIST./~ Sep 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
SOURCE 1953 Ching-chi Nien-pao (The 1953 Economic Yearbook), pp 69-73.
ECONOMY OF SOUTHWEST CHINA IN 1952
[Comment: This report summarizes an article entitled, "South-
west Chine's Economy in 1952," by Yung Heng published in the pro-
Communist 1953 Ching-chi Nicn-pao (The 1953 Economic Yearbook) on
5 February 1953. The report gives data on industry, agriculture,
cooperatives, minority group activities, and private businesses in
the Southwest]
A. Industries
The total industrial production of the Southwest for 1951 was 202.3 per-
cent greater than for 1950. The industrial production for the first half of
1952 exceeded 1951 production by 129.9 percent. The Sikang industrial pro-
duction of 1952 was 228 percent greater than 1950, and industrial in+eslment
was 148 percent greater than 1952.
Following the Three-Antis Movemeent, the production costs of miring in-
dustries controlled by the Department of Industry of the Southwest Military
and Administrative Committee were lowered 10 percen'. in 1952. C nce the
liberation, the number of mines in operation has doubled, and the number of
mine workers has increased 24.5 times.
For the first half of 1952, production of manganese and antimony in
Kweichow was four times and five times greater, respectively, than for the
same period in 1951.
B. Agriculture
4n average of 800 catties of rice per mou was harvested by the farmers
in the Southwest in 1952. The production of tea in 1952 was 130 percent
greater than in 1949; wheat, 1.13 percent greater than in 1951; and vege-
tables, 24.92 percent greater than in 1951.
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C. Cooperatives
In 1951, there were only 786 cooperatives in the Southwest, but by the
end of n
1952, the number increased to more than 6,000 with a membership
of 6.8 million, or 7.5 percent of the total population of the Southwest.
D. Minority Croups
The Tibetans in Sikang reclaimed over 27,000 mou of waste land in 1952.
Minority groups in Wei-shui, Kweichow, irrigated over 20,000 mou of rice
fields. Those of Ch'e-li, Yunnan, increased their rice production by 4
million catties in 1952.
In the fall of 1952, the minority groups in the Southwest set up over
300 trade centers, shops, and small businesses.
S. Private Businesses
The loans extended by the People's Banks in the Southwest to private
industries during the fall of 1952 were 164.95 percent greater than during
the same period in 1951. In September alone, the loans granted to private
industries by the banks were 63 percent greater than in June 1952.
The Department of Industry of the Southwest Military and ;:dciinistrative
Committee placed orders for more than 90 different types of iron and steel
machinery from private firms in Chungking in 1952. From July t,) 3eptenber
1952, government purchases from private industries in Chungking mere 55.68
percent treater thar during the same period in 1951.
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