INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTS IN COMMUNIST CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000100120052-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2000
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: February 9, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2001/03/04: CIA-RDP81-01036R000100120052-1
U.S. Officials Only
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Industrial Developments in Communist China
25X1A
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES. S I THIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 10. SECTIONS 707
AND 704. OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR RIVE.
LATtON OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
YES 25.1A
DATE DISTR. -/ Feb 54
NO. OF PAGES 2
NO. OF ENCLS.
SUPP. TO
REPORT NO.
25X1X
Further notes on industrial developments at various places in CorhTwanist China
are given below:
1. Dairen: A shipyard at Dairen builds 150 hp. tugboats. Production ca.pa.city,
28 men build one boat in three and one-half days.
2. Mukden: A high tension (220,000 volts) line, 369 km long, connects An-;Shun,
Pen-Ch'i, Mukden, Fu-Sung, Fuchin (Fusin), and other important industrial
places.
3. An-Shun (50 km south of Mukden). After the seamless steel tube works are put
into operation, a. second large steel plant will be erected which will manufac-
ture chiefly railway rails and steel trusses (Geriiste).
4. An-Shun: Firebrick for lining blast furnaces, etc. are manufactured at An-Shun,
Pen-Ch'i, Ttang Shan (Tangshan) and Chin-Yuan.
Peiping: The national glassworks at Peiping are now manufacturing for the first
time, `wood glass," a, kind of filter glass which admits no light rays except
ultraviolet.
6. Pei-Feng (Sian): A new cotton mill is under construction on the Lung-Rai
railway line, in the rich cotton district of central Shansi province. When
it is completed there will be 2,000 looms and 50,000 spindles in operation
here.
: ` '.... . e ~R v'OR SUBJECT f 7t ' 1'.
U.S. Officials Only
SECRET
This report is for the use within the USA of the Intelligence components of the Departments or
Agencies indicated above. It is not to be transmitted overseas without the concurrence of the
originating office through the Assistant Director of the Office of Collection and Dissemination, CIA.
Approved For Release 2001/03/04: CIA-RDP81-01036R000100120052-1
 Approved For Release 2001/03/04: CIA-RDP81-01036R000100120052-1
25X1A
SECRET.
7. Ta. kui?~ The Yungli chemical works at this place near Tientsin have in-
1 t production.-(chiefly soda and caustic soda) by 50 percent.
8. Yinchuan: As a result of irrig@.t4jgnil#evelopments, 36,400 hectares more
of land than in 1949 are now under irrigation in the province of Ningsia.
Ningsia is the region west of Alashan, with its center at Chenfang.
Ch'ang-Sha.- Production of the Sia.ngta,n electric motor works to the end
of Oct 1953 was larger by 10 percent than in the entire year 1952.
10. Wu-HannearHankow): Forty different kinds of steel are manufactured in
the Tayeh steel works and delivered to more than 300 factories in various
parts of China.
11. Ho-Fei: This place is probably identical with Lutschou, 150 km west of
Nanking.
7:.r r,y 5 ACT ' AR77A CCU? ws
4/743.419
981L
735.911
IL
740.19
41L
748.7
4.1 E
748.69
'231L
746.5
531L
4/711.2-11
231L
785.4
511L
4/741.72
481L
.740.1
331L
ied ChY .i.t~u
Approved For Release 2001/03/04: CIA-RDP81-01036R000100120052-1