ECONOMIC INFORMATION: CONDITIONS IN THE MISHAN AREA, HOCHIANG PROVINCE, MANCHURIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000300210003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 29, 1947
• Content Type: IR

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY China
SUBJEC Economic Information; Conditions in the Mishan.
.area, Hochiang .Province,, Manchuria
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Ordinary clothing is very expensive in the MishanTungsn area, Fine clothing
sells quite cheaply, as the population fears confiscation of such material
by Communist authorities
The price of grain decreases as one goes farther north and east in Manchuria,
he ungan and ? .sh n area is a grain-producing region, and grain and other
foodstuffs are plentiful at present. Source believes that the supp3y will
not last until the next harvest, however, as large amounts of grain and food-
stuffs are being confiscated by the Communists for military use.
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Salt is very rare and pensive - 100 yen per catty. Notes
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churian yen or yuan, which are still in circulation.)
Coal costs 800 yen per ton in the LL2shan area. Notes One ton 25X1 A6a
of coal costs 40,000 NBC in Changchun.) The Communists have removed mach
coal to Harbin from the Huliti (133-38.,45-59) and Chi angning (south of Hulin)
mines, These mines were formerly under Russian (Soviet?) mmagement and
are new operated partly by the Chinese Cos ists and partly by Soviet
civilians.
Notes Previous information on the existence of coal mines
o e. ne om the Director of the Advisory Board for Manchurian Coal Mining.,
while shoeing mines in the M i.shan area, failed to include the Hul.Jn and
Chiles mime, Ruin is located by other sources at 132-.59.4"-45 and
at i32-59s45-34.27
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