TRANSPORTATION - HIGHWAY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700140203-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 203
• Publication Date: October 21, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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~ummary: During 1953, the Peiping municipal government plans
to construct 100 kilometers of new highways and improve 110 kilo-
meters of side streets. The new roads will aid the construction
program in~progress west of the city. Six new gates in the city
wall are to be opened.
The Canton Municipal Motor Transport Company is expected to
spend 500,000 US dollars in the construction of a reinforced con-
crete service garage and parts factory, dormitories for employees
and their families, a restaurant, and office building.
Ten automobile engines have been built at the Wuhan Motor
Vehicle Assembly Works No 4, using Soviet Pobeda engine designs
and blueprints.
Work began, on 1 May 1953, on the Huang-ho-yen -- Yu-shu sec-
tion of the Tsinghai--Tibet highway.
Motor transport on the Sikang--Tibet highway, now in operation
from I:'sng-ting to Chang-tu, has effected great reductions in
prices of articles brought in to Tibet from China,
PEIPING PLANNING E)C1'ENSIVE HIGH',JAY IMPROVEMENTS - Hong Kong, Ta Kung Pao,
17 ~y 53
Peiping -- The Peiping municipal government has plans for the construction,
during 1953, of 100 kilometers of new highways and for the improvement of some
120 side streets (hu-t'ungs) tetaliug 110 kilometers in length. Among the new
highways to be built are a new trunk motor road 11 kilometers long from the Hsi-
chih Men to the I-ho-yuan (Summer Palace). In the area west of the city where
so many large construction projects are in progress, three east-west roads lying
CLASSIFICATION RL'ST1tiC1'EU
SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Transportation - Highway
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Hong Kong
DATE
PUBLISHED 1 ~Y - 3 Aus 1953
LANGUAGE Chinese
CLASSIFICATION
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between the Fou-ch'eng bfen and the Fu-hsing Men, and a 13-kilometer-long motor
road t4?om the Te-sheng Men to the Ch'ing Ho, to be known as the Te-ch'ing Road
are to be built. In the eastern suburbs, there is to be a main road leading
from the Chao-yang Men to the Tung-tor Bridge, and one outside of the Chien-
kuo,Llen. In the south suburbs, the road outside the Yung-ting bfen leading to
Nan-Yuan, is to be improved and widened to 100 meters for a portion of its
length.
The improvement of the side streets will include surfacing with asphalt
an aggregate area of 240,000 square meters, which is about one tenth of the
surface area of all the side streets in the city. A total of 32 macadamized
roads, including the Kuo-hui Chieh, inside the Hsuan-wu bfen, and the Hsi-tan-
p'1-ta'ai Hu-t'ung, are to be made mediuri-class asphalt roads. i7ang-fu-ching
Ta-chieh an3 the two side lanes oi' Ti-en tden Ta-chieh are to be similarly
treated. The road between Shih-ching-shorn and bfen-t'ou-kou is to be resurfaced
with asphalt. Because of the heavy traffic which they will have to carry, all
the new roads are to be constructed as i'irst-class permanent all-weather roads.
The road outside the Chien-kuo i4en and the Te-ch'ing Lu (Road) are to be
50-6o meters wide, providing lanes for fast and slow trai'fic and sidewalks for
Pedestrians. Tests of the foundation of sections of the Te-ch'ing Lu have
shown the need to put drainage tiles beneath the road-bed and raise its sur-
face above the level of the adjacent land.
To provide convenient access between areas inside and ou?side the city
wall, additional gates are to be opened at six points, namely: at the Fou-
ch'eng bfen where the existing archway is to be removed, at the Nan-ts'ai-yuan
behLng Wu-ting, in the west wall near the Temple of Agriculture, in the east
wall opposite the 'rung-tsung-pu Hu-t'unb, at a point opposite the small street
north of the Tung-chih Men, and at a point near the lower end of Lung??hsu-kou.
CARTON E:tPAivTlING LOCAL TRAIJSPORT FAL`ILITIES -- Yong ;tong, Ts Kung Pao, 1 taay 53
Hong Yong, 30 April -- The Canton Municipal Government has gLven the
equivalent of 500,000 U5 dollars to the Canton Iunicipal Motor Transport Com-
pany for the erection of a reinforced concrete service garage and parts Factory
to replace the old facilities that are outgrown.
The new installation, to be built on N,ei-hue-hang Chieh, will include a
supplies depot and a dormitory for employees. In addition, it is planned to
build at Ta-shs-t'ou, houses for the families of employees, a restaurant for
employees, and a large building for the company offices. The repsir shops
will be equipped with the lstest and best equi?went, and will be large enough
to accommodate simultaneously 20 busses or trucks while they are undergoing
repairs. In the yards adjacent to the service garage, there will be space for
parking 100 vehicles.
Alr!'Oh10BILE ENGII?h;5 BEIIIG BUILT IN HANKON -- Hong Kong, Ta Kung Pao, 5 Jul 53
''+luhan, 4 July, (Ilsin-boor) -- Apart from tine electric accessories per-
?-lining thereto, ten automot~ile engines have be:?n built and tested in the
'duh.:.n btotor Vehicle Assecibly 'docks No 4. In the manufacture oi' these auto-
mobile engines, the designs, and blueprints of the Soviet Pobeda engines
were used.
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PROGRESS IN CONSTRUCTING TSINGHAI-TIBEP HIGHWAY -- Hong KongfTa Kung Pao,
4 May 53
Hsi-sing, 3 May (Chung-kuo Hein-wen-she) -- The ceremony of breaking
ground to begin work on the Huang-ho-yen -- Yu-shu section of the Tsinghai-
Tibet highway was held at Huang-ho-yen on 1 Ma 1
the 504 kilometer section from Hsi-nin to Huan ho3? The completion of
Rive work on which xas started in 1950, has ehortened~by onehhalf the time
required for the ,journey between Hsi-ning and Yu-shu.
The section on which work is now starting will have to cross the Yellow River
and the Chin-sha Chiang ~pper reaches oi' the Yangtze Hive. It rill also
cross mountain ranges 4, 00 meters high as well as 12 kilometers of sandy
desert and 10 kilometers of swampy land.
LHASA HIGHWAY AFFECTING PRICES IN TIBET -- Hong Kong, Ta Kung Pao, 3 Aug 53
K'ang-ting -- Formerly people in Kan-tzu in eastern Tibet xere obliged
to give 6 or?7 pounds of wool in exchange for one pound of noodles brought
in from China. Since the Sikang-Tibet motor road can be traveled as far as
Chang-tu, one-half pound of xool is sufficient to buy a pound of noodles.
Similar price reductions apply to other daily necessities.
Among the goods from China purchased by the Tibetans are cotton and
silk fabrics, tea, soap, towels, manufactured articles and simple agricultural
implements. The highway has brought to the Tibetan people living near it
such an improvement in living conditions that they willingly undertake the
xork of highway maintenance.
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