EDUCATION AND GOVERNMENT SERVICE COMMODITY PRICES AND CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS ON THE CHINA MAINLAND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007400690003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 13, 2008
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 20, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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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.
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
China
Education and Government Service.,
Commodity Prices, and Construction
Projects on the China Mainland
SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OP CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
Education and Government Service
1. The fees at the Yoshanshih Lien Ho Middle School (0154/1472/1579/5114/0678/0022/
1331) were:
Tuition, per semester ........ JMP150,000
Hooks, etc., 1 semester...... 50,000
Lunch, per meal............... 1,500
Lunch., per month ............. 39,000
Peivina Steel and Iron Institute of Technolog
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DATE DISTR.
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REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
Icoursesl
were cow oti engineer ng, mac inery parts, metallurgy, X-ray on metals,
strength and material, political science, and foreign language.
world. The school, with the enrollment of over 5,000 students, offered a five- 25X1
yeTr extrriculum, the last two of which were spent in clinical practice. The
government paid JMP20,000 for the education of each student.
three hospitals were under this school, which had the best equipment in the
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Commodity Prices
4. In Kwangsi Province,
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Rice .................JMP1,000 per catty
Salt..... .JMP1,700 per catty
Peanut oil........ ...JMP6,400 per catty
Pork ................. JMP6,000 per catty
Kerosene .............JMP5,400 per catty
Firewood .............JMP7,000 per. 100 catties
Construction
5.
a. The first tractor factory of the nation
completed in 1955.
b. China, Mongolia, and the USSR had agreed to construct the Chining (N28-26,
E 121-2$)-Wulanpachu Railroad. The section of this railroad from Chining
to Erhlientuan (0059/6647/3008) was completed in December 1954.
c. The first micro-tool machine factory had been established in Harbin.
d. The nation's first automobile factory had undertaken mass production.
e. The USSR had been helping China establish the 100-billion-square-meter
International Friendship Farm for rice production.
6. Other reports from Kwangtung Province described the following developments:
a. Manpotou in T'aishan (N 2216, E 112-46) had become a hydroelectric power
station.
b. With the completion of the new river at Tuhu (N 22-04, E 112-57) the whole
river had become navigable by February 1955. A typhoon shelter capable of
sheltering hundreds of boats would be completed soon in Tungshihhsu (N 24-
40, E 115-58). Trade communications in the Tuhu area would be facilitated
by these projects.
c. Industrial improvement in machine shops and among manual laborers had been
introduced by the "elder Russian brother"; many large houses in Canton had
been converted into factories. The Canton Cement Factory had become the
main supply for the whole nation.
d. The Nan Fang Mansion, opened on National Memorial. Day, had 11 stories with
an elevator.-
Comment. The Nan Fang Mansion was formerly the Sun Company,
Ltd. Destroyed by fire during World War II it has been redecorated
the Chinese Communist government..
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