ADMINISTRATION OF SOUTH KIANGSU PROVINCE

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004100410012-2
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: January 19, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Chi na
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SUBJECT Aelrtintetrr.tion of South Eiangeu Province
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CLASSIFICATION _e!TrrH??!tf'1i ;,
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This document is hereby regc domed to
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Arch;vist of the United States.
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I. South Xia"tn?;su Province is governed under the Comruni st regime through the
Sou! Xiangeu Administrative Office. It is headers by KUAH Wen-wei (v1?
Xffj )U, who is also chairman of the Military Control Commission of Wuhsi
(124>18, 31-35) ? Deuuty heads are LIU Nsiw. im (,raj - 4. - ) and C8"
Ruo-Meals ( d )e'
2. The new administr,tinn has abolisherl the o chic ( ` ) system and re-
ulaceci it with a LgIrMg ( ' vector) aznd sou village) systni't
Three is in form a hsianar, three hsiP a ch'u ( E. (listrict), and each
unit possesses its own government, staffed by Communist workers a~'nointed
by the )rovincial authorities. Communist control has been tightened over
the hsien, and the number of districts in each hsien has been reduced.
Former hsyig and. r!iatrict boundaries hnve been consVterably re-arranged.
3. In,1948, taxation was levied in kind as determined by the local Communist
officials; the ano..nt was atinnroxirntely I,000 aki2 (1 shah is 72 kilograris)
iron! each hrria.nr*.*e* The land. tax in 11n49 was originally 19 c.^tties of wheat
and 38 catties of 'beans ber rou. With the second. rice crop, an additional
leery, of 2071 cattier of rice anti 400 catties of beans, amounting to nearly
half the harvest, his been demanded of each hsia . This tax had. not been
collected, by early November 1949. Ari itional taxes at the harvest season
include two 'iculs of rice on each ox, forty Dereent of the value of each
"tig, and 10,000 Peo',leg a Currency (PC) for each bicycle. There is also a
heavy tax on wine, although drinking in many areas is prohibited.
4. To convince the farmers of the necessity of owing 'roduce taxes, South
Xiangsu authorities sent wrova,zenria workers into the rural areas to show
hou food must be irovided for Communist soldiers in their fight to liberate
China. Pronda cartoons, such as a drawing in a Shanghai 'P,uer of a truck
full of rice and wheat bound for the USSR and a truck full of 'petroleum teed
paper returning from there to China, are also used in nonulari7ini:, relations
between China and the USSR. Communist authorities in Wuhsi commandeered
100,000 shih of T,olished rice. in Changrhou (':uchln, 119-58, 31-46) 30,000
shah, =..id in Soochow 50,000 shih.
5. Heavy taxes have caused economic diffici-1ties, but shops axui, factories are
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allowed neither to close nor to tlisclmree their employees. Purchasing poerer
has diminished also. The only legal tender is People's Currency (PC). a10.
only silver dollars, -t the rate of one to 1,600 PC? can be exchanged at
banks, Both silver anq gold are strictly t)rohibited ann are confiscated) it
founts. Golrl his &isa-ppearpd from the rarket.
6. All universities in the area have been close-i except Chiang Nan (' )
University in Wuhsi haten, but the primary an . mid'ile schools are fttnctioning
as usual. The currir*ilum, however, Me become comblefi;ely Comnnintet and com-
prises r.aftily the th4orles of Marx, Lenin, n.nd MAX) Tee-tong. 111 teachers,
before being; emDloyed, are required to rasa tests on Communist nrincinles
and i Ieology. .[haring, the summer vacation of ice, two-iveek training classas
for teachers were carried on in various hoie n. %rith err? tasi s on reading
thoroughly o::' even meniorii i n g , the editorials of the H a i n H u m ( J
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China) ilai iT-r . An it of their course, the teachers Lrere also re-
mired to do Communist rronap,,n.nela work in the villages under supervision of
Communist Party members.
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Although conscription has not been officially enforced, young people is mo.ny
hsien are volunteering; for the army as a result of Communist intirni& .?tion.
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