BASIC CONSTRUCTION AND INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT DATA, JULY-OCTOBER 1953, EXTRACTED FROM CHINESE COMMUNIST PRESS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700160279-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 279
• Publication Date: February 23, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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BASIC CONS'tRUC_TIOIi APH) IItDUSTRIAI. EQUIPGSEIIT DATA JULY-GCTOEER 1953,
EiCPRACTr:D FROM CHIItESE CObII~MJIST PRESS
NORTHEAST CONSTRUCTION -- Tientsin, Ta Kung Pao, 22 Oct 53
Northeast China completed tyro-thirds of its 1953 basic construction by the
end of September 1953. 2dajor projects completed include: construction of a
seamless tubing plant and a heavy rolling mill at An-shan; repairs of No 7 blast
furnace at An-shan; installation of two large k: '^oelectric generators at the
Hai-chou Conl bline; construction of buildings at the Ito 1 Automobile Plant; con-
struction of an electrical machinery plant and a tool manufacturing plant in
Harbin; construction of n heavy machinery plant, an electric wire plant, and a
mining machinery plant in tfukdcn; and repairs to the IJo 8 Cement Plant in
Mukden.
CHUNGKIIIG FACTORIES IIICP.EASE TARGETS -- Tientsin, Ta Kung Pao, 19 Oct 53
Chungking's 42 large-scale factories and mines have increased their
original targets in the increese-production, practice-economy movement by
23 percent. The follo:ring plants are taking part in the movement: IIo 101 Iron
and Steel iJOrks, Chungkin; dlectrical L'quipment Factory, and the No 102 Factory.
MACHIfIERY PLAIIT -- T'ai-yuan, Shansi Jih-pao, 9 Jul 53
The T'ai-yuan Heavy I?fachinex?y Plant i~ under construction.
CEI~ITRAL-SOUTII COIJSTRUCTICN PROSi:CTS -- Tientsin, Ta Kung Pao, 21 Oct 53
Of the 43 basic construction projects underway in Shanghai and Nanking,
39 are on schedule or ahead of schedule.
Three fourths of the main basic construction projects in Central-South
China are expected to be on schedule at the end of the year. Three key projects
in the Central-South Administrative Area are: state-operated Cheng-chou No 1
Cotton Textile Factory, the iCwani;tun? Tzu-ni Sugar Refinery, and the Hunan Hsia-
she-ssu Power Plant.
PEIPIIvG CONSTRUCTIOI ;lGRh -- 'Pier.tain, Ta Kung Pao, 17 Oct 53
IJorkers frwa the ho 401 Factory in Peiping heard reports from Volunteer
Army personnel. tdore than 200,000 construction wori:e:?s are at work on over
400 construction projects in Peiping.
A revolving crane, gifb of file German Peoples Republic, is now at work on
Construction Project No 353 '.n l'r i.,,i.n
ELECTRICAL MACHIfiE;RY PLAIJ'TS -- Tientsin, Tn Kung Pao, 1'j Oct 53
The Ys-k'uang Electric Machine Factory in Tientsin is participating in the
increase production, practice economy movement.
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Tientsin, Ta Kung Pao, 18 Oct 53
The construction of the state-operated large-scale Rarbin Electric Machinery
Plant, the first of its kind, was completed on 16 October 1953? Among the ma-
chines which this plant will produce are 10,000 and 16,000 kilowatt hydroturbine
generators. Production is scheduled to begin in August or September of 1)54.
T'ai-yuan, Shansi Jih-pao, 3 Jul 53
The First Ministry of ldnchine Industry is pl~:nning to rep::ir ten large cnn-
chinery manufacturing plants during 1y53. One oi' the ten plants to be rep::ired
i^, the Fu-shun Electric 1'.achinery Manufacturing Plart, ~+hich, when completed,
will produce electric, shovels neighing as much as 7.50 tor.;.
1+lIIIING IId NORTFISJEST -- Tientsin, Ta Kung Pao, 1) Oct 53
By the end of the third quarter, the cool mine shaft-cuttin? plan in the
Northwest had only been 39 percent fulfilled. The petroleum drill+.ig plan had
been 65 percent *ulfilled.
I1iDUSTRIAh 4iACfiZIIL?'RY PRODUCTIOti -- i"ai-yuan, Shans_ Jih-pao, 1 Jul 53
The T'ai-yuan Machinery Plant exceeded its June 1953 Production goal and
successfully manufactured its first 7~0-kilogram pneumatic hammer, weiRhi.nr
about 30 tons with n base of about 5, 00 squire millimeters. This hammer,
capable of for;;ln; a round piece of material of a 300-millimeter diameter or a
square piece of material of a 270-millimeter di :meter is about 5,800 millimr.tcrs
high.
Tientsin, Ta Kung Pao, 25 Oct 53
Ta-lung, T'ai-li, Rsin-ch'ang, Chin-ch'ang, Chung-hua, and Liang-kung
machinery and steel factories in Shanghai, previously engaged in the manufacture
of machinery Yor textile and paper'mills, were given contracts to manufacture
lathes, .drills, and shaping machines.
T'ai-yuan, Shansi Jih-pao, 5 Jul 53
The Tsai-chia-kang Mining Iachinery hfannfactitring Plant l:as completed the
manufacturing of two experimental pieces of mirln~ nr~chinery, a slow-speed
winch and a 200-horsepower blower used for ventilation. The sloe-speed winch
has already.b~en tested at the Tsai-chia-king Coal Mine in the Huai-non area
with excellent results.
T'ai-yuan, Shan^,i Jih-pao, 2 Jul 53
The Shansi iinchlnery Plant has completed its production plan for the first
half of 1953? During 1)53, the plant decrecsed the time required for manufactur-
ing u boring machine from 37g hours to 241 hours ai:d for the large axle of a
50-horsepower hoist from 200 hou:-s to 6!F honrs.
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The Northwest exceeded its factory and mining pln~.s during the first
9 months of 1953, Particularly witi~ regard to state-operated coal, electricity,
petroleum, and textile production.
The L1-hsin iRedicnl and Chemical Equipment ractory in Tientsin apologized
for the manufacture of defective products.
'Phe Shanghai Equipment Plant Igo 2 has succes;:fuliy completed the manufactur-
ing of an experimental X-~?ay machine. It is planning to manufacture a large num-
ber of them in 1953? The plant is also planning to complete the construction of
additional buildings before 1956 to increase production.
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