PLANS TO REMOVE RESIDENTS AND UNIVERSITIES FROM SHANGHAI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007700020004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 22, 2008
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 11, 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.
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
Plans to Remove Residents and
Universities from Shanghai
DATE DISTR.
// August 1955
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REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
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Chinese Communist authorities in Shanghai were making plans to
evacuate from Shanghai up to three million persons in the following categories:
a. Viers who had come to Shanghai instead of tilling the land given them
during the land reform pro ram.
b. Factory and hospital empioyees.
c. Unemployed persons depending upon government relief.1
2. 0 plans were underway to move T'ungchi University, formerly St. John's'
Universityy to an unspecified site outside of Shanghai. T'ungchi Ebe ital
was also to be moved.
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plans had been made to move Futan University from Shanghai to
Chungking. All students and movable equipment were to be included in the mire.
-'eomment.
Shanghai may be sent to the Northwest.
these persons evacuated from
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Chinese Connnunist authorities were planning to reduce the
population of Shanghai from six million to three million by moving factories
and universities into the interior. The Shanghai Chieh Fang Jih Pao of
24 May 1955 reported that an estimated 60,451 peasants had returned to
production work in rural areas of East China from Shanghai during April
and May 1955.
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