REGULATIONS, EMPLOYMENT, AGRICULTURE, CONSTRUCTION AND EDUCATION IN KWANGTUNG PROVINCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007300270004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 15, 2008
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 28, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT -INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY China
DATE OF INFO.
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Construction and, Education in
Kwangtung Province
Regulations, Employment, Agriculture, DATE DISTR.
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Postal and Travel Regulations
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-.:'there was still a restriction on youths' going abroad; with sufficient
documentatiw; however, an application might be approved. Authority for the'
issuance of exit permits rested with the village gov lent, not with the dis-
t ,tct or the hsien government.
As a repult of Lamine, the Chinese Communist authorities began, in January 1955,
to encourage people to leave the China mainland for Hong Kong and.Macaa.,
Regulations had been eased for people wishing to go to Hong Kong to receive
remittances from overseas Chinese. Approval for exit permits required about ten
days.
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Employment and Conscription
11. Commerce and industry on the China mainland were on the verge of death. In
Hsinhui (N 22-32, E 113-02), jobless people were increasing every day, and only
Communist cadres were still employed. City workers could not return to the farm
because the new farm production quota set by the government was impossible to
meet. People were forced to scrap food from their tables to try to meet the new
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12. All males from 18 to 40 years of age, with the exception of the single child in
a family or the sole support of a family, were subject to conscription. Soldiers
from 18 to 30 years of age were classified as first-class soldiers and those from
30 to 40 years of age as second-class soldiers. Women from 18 to 40 years of age
were to be trained in medical and technical services.
Agriculture
13. As a result of the drought, the rice ration was cut in early March 1955 from 26
catties to 20 catties per individual per month, and a 47 percent farm production
increase had been ordered.
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-14. All land owners in Toumed.'(N 23x32, E 116-44) were to be purged. Farmers were
required to pay up their taxes immediately after their yearly harvest. The
remaining grain was to be sold to the Farmers Committee at JMP80,000 per picul
and was to be resold to the farmer at JMP95,000 per picul. Farmers were pro-
hibited from storing rice.
Construction
15. A section of a river from Sanchia (N 23-28, E 115-50) to Tungchiaokou (N 23-44,
E 117-02) was dredged 80 feet wide and 60 feet deep, which size enabled large
ships to sail directly to Canton. The dredging was completed in mid-January
1955. On the opposite Aide of the bridge, a typhoon shelter was constructed.
16. Construction had been scheduled to begin in April 1955 on a highway from Tuhu
crossing the Kutoushan (N 22-08) E 113-00) to Chiangmen (N 22-36) E 113-06).
Education
17. Sending children to school was not expensive, since the tuition per semester
was only JMP30,0005" and board and lodging per month was JMF70,000. Junior
middle schools and universities offered free tuition, board, and lodging. An
allowance of JMP90,000 could be provided to poor students.
18. In a letter to his brother, a student reported that his courses for the next
term would include navigation, astronomy, radio electronics, navigation instru-
ments, harboring, seamanship, and foreign language. He further commented that
his curriculum was much better than it had been at the school in.Chung:hing z
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