CHINESE COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN SINKIANG PROVINCE

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
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• Publication Date: June 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY . China
SUBJECT
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
17 June 1953
1. References a to hospitals and wounded soldiers in radio broadcasts on
18 February 1953 appear to indicate that some of the Chinese soldiers
wounded in Korea may have been brought to Sinkiang with their families,
thereby increasing the Chinese population in the Province. These
references include the following:
a. At a meeting held on 15 February " to express beat wishes to members
'bf the People's Army in Sinkiang and their families," C11V Ting-lien,
"speaking on behalf of the families of the People's Volunteers in
Korea, said, 'tieing deeply gratified by the government's sympathetic
concern for us, I will continuously write to my son and call on him
to fight the enemy to the end.'" At the same meeting Abdul .Rahman,
M
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, Home Minister, read a letter drafted on behalf of the
peoples of Sinkiang to the "People's Army stationed in Sii.xiang,
the People's Volunteers at the Korean front, and wounded so.,ldiers
who are members of the revolutionary armies."
b, On the eve of the Chinese New Year, the Provinoial Committee for
the Welfare of the people's Army and Their Families sent groups of
representatives to express good wishes and deep sympathy to the
officers and men of the Chinese Communist army and the wounded and
sick soldiers. "The first group, led by Amin Makhdum2, visited the
Sinkiang Military Regional hospital in Cutubi and the headquarters
of Shikhanza Garrison and its hospital. The second group. led by
Abdulla Zakirov,3,visited the Provincial Army Headquarters and its
political department. The third group, led by CHANG Fu-then,
visited the hospital of a certain oorps."
2. The presence or expectation of popular resistance against the Communist
regime may be indicated by the announcement, on 20 February, that the
Peasants' Union had set up 82 peace preservation groups. This item was
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Chinese Communist Activities in
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in the report that land reforms in Suiting (N 44-03, E 80-49), Chilpa za
(sic) and Kuldja (N 43f455, E 81-14) areas of Ili District and in Hami(N 42-48,
E 93-27) District would be by the end of rebruary 1953.
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4. The following items of economic information were included in the broadcasts;
a. A broadcast on 27 February stated that the Sinkiang Branch of the Bank
of China had decided to give loans totaling wre than 76 million dollars
in 1953, an amount five times that loaned in 1952. However, on 21
March it was reported that a single village had received a loan of 41
million dollars from the State Bank, which had made possible the pur-
chase of 3 oxen., 3 horses, 7 wagons, seeds, and some agricultural tools.
b. On 21 February it was announced that in 1953 agrioultu.ra1 production
would be nine percent, over that of 1952. In the village which had
received the loan reported on 27 xeb.vvey, the yield target for 1953
was set at 1,830,840 jings (approximately three million pounds), repre-
senting an increase of about 18 percent over 1952. In 1952 this vil-
lage had wasted 70,000 jings of grain by careless sowing.
o. On 14 March it was reported that the Hai District Cooperative,
employing 14 ironsmiths, had manufaotu1?ed. 19990 agricultural tools
since November 1952, and that the Urunohi. Cooperative had produced
30,000 agricultural. tools. An earlier report, on 21 February, had
said that the Urtanoh.. Cooperative had since July 1952 employed 70
tiron.smiths, and 30 molders had produced 80 percent of the quota of
agricultural tools it had undertaken to make before the start of the
195.5 cultivation season.
5. On 3 March, in connection with reports of reactions to Stalin's death, the
following persons were mentioned.
a. Among those who paid oondc- enoe visits to Acting Soviet Consul General
Baranov were: Amin Malchdum., vice ohairmattt of the Provincial People's
Assembly; Abdulla Zakirov, secretary-genoral of the Sinkiang government;
Polat Alimi5, depute -chairman of the Sinkiang Finance and Economics Com-
mittee; Dr. TU Chi , Minister for Agriculture and Forests; KCA Bing-sian,
Deputy Minister for Agriculture and Forests; LU Hu??ohien, Deputy Minister
for Law and Ord.er7; Ma jid Te,anzin8, Minister of Transportation; Yusuf
Khan, a Kazakh, assistant commander of a certain corps; KAO Shu-shien,
chairman of the Workers' Union; YAO Vi.-yua.an, head of the Association of
Democratic Women, with her deputies, Rashida and Fatima; Mahinur
Qasinova9, member of the Chinese delegation to the Vienna Peace Conference=
and. Nusrat Shahida10, secretary of the Sino.Soviet Friendship Association,*
b. Burhan Shahidi sent telegrams of condolence to the Central Committee of
the Soviet Communist Party and to the Soviet Council of Ministers.
o. Saifullah Yofll, governor of Kasligar, paid a condolence call at the Soviet
Consulate at Kashgar.
d. Anwar Jakalin and Margul, assistant commander of a certain army corps,
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paid condolence visits to the Soviet consulate at Kuldja.
6. On 11 March 1953 a large meeting held to mourn Stalin was reported, The
speakers at the meeting were WANG En-mao, secretary of the Sinkiang Communist
Party; Abdulla Zakirov, speaking on behalf of the Sinkiang Youth Demooratio
League; KAO Shi-shien12, speaking on behalf of the Workers' Union; and
Rashida, the wife of Burhan, speaking on behalf of the Sinkiang Women's
Association.
7. Other personalities mentioned in radio broadcasts included the following=
a. CHANG Shu-ohing, Sinkiang Regional Military Coxinan;cer, who attended a
meeting to celebrate the third anniversary of the signing of the Sino-
Soviet treaty.
b. Vioe Consul Ivanov, who was one of the representatives of the Soviet
Union at that same meeting.
o. ZING Dee, deputy chief of the Political Department of the Sinkiang
Military Area, who attended a meeting on 15 February to express good
wishes to the members of the Chinese Communist army in Sinkiang and
their families.
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1. Abdul Rahman Muhiti is the nephew of General Mahmud Muhiti.
2. Amin Makhdum was a member of the so-called Haj which visited India
from China in 1952.
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4. The reference may be to Nanohan Bulak (N 41-15, E 88-56).
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25X1 7. Comment. In August 1950 LIU Hu-p' ing *as reported as a
deputy director of the Public Soeurity Office, Sinkiang government.
25X1 8. IC Wit. This appears to be the name of a Tartar from the
ientsin area.
25X1 81 -]Comment. The list of members of the Chinese delegation to
the Congress of eoples for Peace in Vienna, announced on 12 December
1952, included Mayinuerh, Uighur, vice president of the Sinkiang
Democratic Women's Federation.
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11. Comment. Saifuliah Yov was formerly a member of the Provincial
Legislative Assembly.
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25X1 12. 1 Comment. This is probably the KAO Shu-shien mentioned in
paragraph 5 a.
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