HAI-DHOU OPEN-PIT MINE BEGINS PRODUCTION 1 JULY 1953

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 169
• Publication Date: January 29, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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HAI-CIiOU OPEN-PIT MINii-- HE-GINS PRODUCTION 1 JULY 1953
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Jen-min Jih-pao
Peiping, 2, 3 Jul 1953
[summary: On 1 July 1953, many mining officials attended the
ceremony for the opening of the Hai-thou open-pit mine. Although
production has started at this open-pit mine, reconstruction ac-
tivities continue. Much mining equipment was brought in from vari-
ous areas inside of China as well as imported.
Numbers in parentheses refer to appended characters)
HAI-CHOU OPEN-PIT MINE HOLDS CEREMOIvy -- Peiping, Jen-min Pao, 2 Jul 53
On 1 July 195'? the Hai-thou open-pit mine at Fou-hsin, Liaosi, held its
opening ceremonyin the presence of many miring officials. The reconstruction
of this open-pit mine was be:-an in May 1951 with the aid of Soviet equipment.
Present at the opening ceremony were Hsu2Ta-pen (1), Deputy minister of
y the Ministry of Fuel Infustry; Li Rua-chi
of the Coal Min-
ing Control Bureau of the Ministry Fuel ( ~, Industry; Director
(3), of the Liaos: Provincial Party CocmnitteeCCP Central Committee; Chang
Hsueh-wen (4), Chief of the Fou-hsin Mining Affairs Bureau; Huang Yu-chung
superintendent
5),
superintendent of the Hai-chou open-pit mine; and Ko-li-pu-k'o-fu (], a
specialist who assisted in the reconstruction folipkov
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mine. of the Hai-thou open-pit
The Hai-chou open-pit mine, which has about one fifth the personnel of the'
Fu-shun open-pit mine, can produce more coal than Fu-shun and at a very low cost.
It is estimated that hereafter the Rai-chou open-pit mine should be able to
supply hugs qua-tities of coal to the industrial centers of An-shan, Dairen, Fu-
shun, and Mukden, and to the An-tung, hin-chou, and Harbin railway systems.
PRODUCTION BEGINS AT HAI-CHOU OPEN-PIT ALll E -- Peiping, Jen-min Jib-pao,3 Jul 53
On 1 July 1953, production of coal began at the Rai-chou open-pit mine at
Fou-hsin, Liaosi, while reconstruction was still in progress. This open-pit mine
extends 3.6 kilometers east and west, 1.5 kilometers north and south, and has a
depth of 30 meters.
In 1951, at the onset of the reconstruction of this open-pit mine the aban-
donment of eight original pits, which annually could produce one million tons of
coal, was necessary because of financial difficulties. Thus for, 12 million
cubic meters of earth have been removed from the mine; and a total of 160 kilo-
meters of electric cables and wires have been used in the construction at the
mine. The amount of work accomalished in the second quarter of this year repre-
sents an equivalent of 60 percent of all the work done in this open-nit mine in
the past 2 years. The mange from decentralized to centralized transmission of
electric power resulted in a 20 percent
d
re
uction in ti
ransmssion equipment.
For use in this open-pit min
e power shovlt
,es, auomatic unloading cars,
switching engines, and mercury arc rectifiers were imported from the Ural re-
^ion. Railroad ties were obtained from the Po-k'o-t'u Shan in Inner Mongolia.
Rail tracks were transported from the Chungking Plant No 101 in Chungking, and
road scrapers were sent from the Hsien-yang Petroleum Bureau in the Northeast.
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months. The operating cost of the present Hai-chou open-pit mine is lower than
the operating cos+ of the Fu-sh'~-, open-pit mine developed under the Manchukuo
Regime. At present, there are about 1,200 workers trained to do the various op-
erations at the Hai-Chou open-pit mine as compared to fourteen 2 years ago.
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