1. PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF ARSENALS AND WAREHOUSE, NORTH CHINA 2. DESCRIPTION OF SUBMACHINE GUN PRODUCED AT THE MUKDEN ARSENAL

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• Publication Date: June 17, 1953
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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Proposed Construction of Arsenals DATE
DISTR. 17 June 1953
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and Warehouse, North China
Description of Submachine Gun NO.
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Produced at the Mukden Arsenal
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
This Document contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.s.Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person Is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form Is prohibited.
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. By order of the Central Military Council (CMC) construction of two arsenals,
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one near T'aiyuan (N 37-52, E 112-35) and one at Changchih2 (N 36-05, E 113-14),
was to begin shortly after early May 1953. Engineering staffs and construction
materials were assembled at both sites by 30 April. Three engineering bureaus
at Taiyuan and one bureau at Changchih had been established in February by the
Chinese Communist Second Ministry of Machine Industry (SMMI) of the Government
Administration Council, under whose direction the construction of these two
medium-sized arsenals was undertaken. The CMC approved the final plans drafted
by representatives of the CMC, the SMMI, and the Central Supply and Service
Command (CSSC)after they had surveyed the arsenal sites in Shansi in October 195R-
2. The arsenal at T'aiyuan will manufacture heavy weapons and the arsenal at
Changchih will manufacture rifles and ammunition. T'aiyuan is the site of a
former Chinese Nationalist arsenal later used by the Chinese Communists as a
State-operated factory. Part of the machinery from this factory will be trans-
ferred to the two proposed arsenals.
3. In early May, the CSSC and the CMC were planning to construct a military ware-
house north of the city limits of Taiyuan, east of the Fenho (N 37- , E 112- )
and west of the railway. The proposed construction, at an estimated cost of JMP
on (sic) 60,000,000,000,3 was to cover an area of 25,000 square meters and was
to be built entirely of reinforced concrete with both fire prevention and air
defense equipment. The warehouse construction was to be undertaken simultaneously
with that of the Taiyuan arsenal and was to be used for storing the weapons
manufactured at the new arsenal.
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4. Prior to 6 April 1953 the Chinese Communist arsenal at Mukden was manufacturing
a model ~l submachine gun whose overall length was 34 inches. The barrel was
equipped with ventilated casing, and the curved magazine contained 30 rounds of
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ammunition.
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Comment. Presumably the Chinese Communist Revolutionary Military
Comment. As indicated) lit is possib,.e znati
the title of the Council has been garbled or contracted. However, the
t inolo in recent reports t
some redesigiation of Chinese ommunis military have occurred.
the "National Defense Army" rather than
ara e ling tnis apparent cnange in
terminology, it seems possible a the title of Revolutionary Military
Council has also been revised.
Comment.
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0,000,000,000 may have been intended, although the
figure used seems m
ore
appropriate.
,omment. Thi
s we
apon appears similar to the Soviet PPSh-1941 and
PP h-19+3 submachin
e gu
ns.
Comment.
The
PPSh-191+1 and the PPSh-1914.3 have ventilated barrel
Jackets and are app
roxi
mately 34" in length (33.15 and 32.72 inches
respectively). The
curv
ed box magazine which is standard equipment on the
PPSh-191+3 and which
app
ears on modifications of the PPSh-191+1 holds 3~
rounds of ammunitio
n.
These discrepancies, though not large, suggest that
this gun may be m
ndpl
similar tn. but not identical with, the two Soviet
guns mentioned.
Troo Movements and Military Activities,
Chekian
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testing of a
new type of "rifle"
in
I That weapon
Wen ling 20-21, 121-21)L
was reportedly manu
fact
ured by an arsenal in North China, held 30 rounds of
ammunition, and had
the
model designation "503".
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