INFORMATION ON CONSTRUCTION DEVELOPMENTS IN CHINA DURING FIRST HALF OF 1953

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700190116-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2011
• Sequence Number: 116
• Publication Date: June 17, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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Ching-chi {~ -pao
Song Kong, 2 Jun 1953
[Summer;; Under the Basic Construction Progr,:m in Communist
China, many centers are being iaduetrialized. This report presents
information on the industrial developments in various centers lo-
catAd in the Northeasty North China, Southwest and Central and South
China administrative areas during the first half of 1953?]
Under the Basic Construction Program during the first half of 1953, Com-
mualet China is making a great effort to promote her industries. Statistics
showing pxogress on industrial construction in the various administrative areas
in Chine are given below.
Northeast Administrative Area
Plans to develop 25 important centers during 1953 located in the North-
east Administrative Area are as follo:rs:
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Amount of investment: 817,600,000 yuan
Building and repair of roads: 2,900,000 square meters
Waterways and gas pipes: 260 kilometers
Installation of street lights: 5,000
Planting of trees: 9,630,000
Roads to be constructed in An-shah: 1,140,000 square meters
Amount to be spent in sewage disposal project in Fu-shun: one-fifth oP
Fu-shun construction Yund
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The 1953 construction program of Mukden, which started itt April, includes
the following:
Road Construction: 17 roads, consisting of 427,000 square meters
Waterways: ~O,T~?meters
Sewers: 8,500 meters
Buildings: 4,700 square meters
Excavations: 635,000 cubic meters
27orth China Administrative Area
below~e 1953 plans for developing areas near T'ai-yuan and Tientsin are given
1. T'si-yuan ,
Length of 4-.'.ane bridge crossing Fen Ho: 1 li [1%3 mile) .
Water systems: 2 water supply plants
Ducts: 53 li
Waterways: 17,940 meters
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INFORMATION ON CONSTRUCTION DEVEi)YMENTS
IN CHINA DURING FIRST HALF OF 1953
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Water pipes: 6,400 meters, se~?ving come 50,000 people
Electrically operated rater pump stations: 3 stations, totaling 640
horaepowera
Southwest Administrative Area
Fo: the first quarter of 1953, Chungking plans to build 104 ki]--eters of
roads and to start on some 100 construction projects.
Central~outh China Administrative Area
Dacause of its proximity to the Ta-yeh Iron Mine and the Ping-hsien Coal
Mine, Hsiang-t'an [ 112 51 E 27 54 N), a commercial port in Hunan, is rapidly
becoming an industrial center. Several thousand longshoremen and more than
10,00p construction workers are engaging in the development of Hsiang-t'an.
Moreover, many new plants are being built to support its industrial develop-
ment. The Hsiang-t'en Textile Mill has more than 1,000 automatic looms and
several tens of thousands of spindles.
Plane to develop other areas and plants in the Central-South China pdmia-
istrative Area during 1953 include:
Huang-shih: Building a highxay 30 meters in width; constructing dormi-
tories and sanitoriums
2. Tientsin, Chin-chuag Ho System
Sexers: 4.4 kilometers
Cheng-chou: Starting building projects, some 300,000 square meters in
Plant 2829 [state-operated]: Increasing its area by some 60,000 square
meters
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