LIVING CONDITIONS IN THE SWATOW AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003400500006-3
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2009
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 25, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
the population
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monists regime came to power due mainly to a depressed economy in the
area, and that many people had volunteered to join labor battalions
rather than be :faced w:.th unemployment.
SUBJECT Living Conditions in the Sw'atow Area DATE DISTR. 25 January 1954
of Swatow had fallen to less than 2009000 from 250,000 since the Com-
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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an influx of people into Swatow because of depressed
conditions in the co-witrys:i.de caused a housing shortage and. an :increase in
rents in the city..
Farm loans, once made available to peasants by the government, were no
longer being issued.. Farm cooperatives, which once loaned sheds and
fertilizer, were now concerned. principally with the control of prices on farm
produce. Some of the peasants sold land granted them under the land reform
program without any intervention :from. the government to stop.these sales.
The usual price for the land was GTMP 800,000 per :mou (396.r)).
Prices fluctuated, considerably in Swatow and there were, frequent shortages
of basic essentials. laundry soap was almost unavailable; peanut
oil, which had also been unavailable, was placed under state control;2 rice
sold. for JMP 120,000 per picul; pork sold for eTMP 18,000 per catty; fish
sold for JMP 20,000 per catty. Cloth and clothing were generally expensive.
Black market dealings in goods were more or less an open secret.
peanut oil was almost unobtainable -rf)-rougou n 9
forced to depend on less palatable edible oils. ILLEGIB
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