CHINESE COMMUNIST DEVELOPMENT OF AIRFIELDS AND MILITARY ESTABLISHMENTS SINKIANG PROVINCE

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006800070001-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2001
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• Publication Date: February 2, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Chinese Communist development of
Airfields and iiitery'staablishments,r_=,.
Sinkiang Province
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1~ At the conference held in Peiping on 30 1r:ay 1950, Sinkiang Province was
selected as the area of greatest security and primary strategical importance
for military purposes. in consequence, Party organization and Party
machinery were strengthened in Sinkiang, and an extensive propaganda cam==
paign was carried out to convince the local population of their duty to the
nation. The Province was also cl:::arsd of undesirables, i.nc?uding such
"imperialist agents" as the consulates of India and Pakistan.
,1:. After the undesirable elements had been driven from Sinkiang, construction
of airfields, military establishments and oranance depots was begun. All
air force equipment was supplied by the USSR And Czechoslovakia, and the
USSR also furnished military and air advisers. Young Chinese were sent to
the USSR and the "People's Lemocraoy"** for aviation training,
3. Airfields have been constructed at Yaagthissal (sic), Shiya (sic) and
iucha (sic), which is air neaaquarters.*** The area from Yarken (sic) to
Tsehleh (sic)**** is being surveyed and airfields are under construction,
4, A large military establishment has been developed at uvushih Ordnance Depots.***w*
Research work on the development of military techniques is bein conducted
on a. large scale,
5. In November 1950 about 500 jet planes and 200 transport planes were stationed
at the various airfields.
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~Comrent. Accoraing to the informant, V-.e document requested
information on political and economic conditions in ivepal and Assam,
and promised farther reports on Tibet and the air power of Communist
China,
Comment. This Tay refer to the Wkongoliur1 -eeople;'s Republic
or to i..anchuria..
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omtriierit. These pi:9aos are possibly ,,uchra (82-.54,, 41-43),
Shahyar tit-50, 41-15) and Yin~chisha (7009, %'48-155C,)
Comment. A landing i'ield at .uchra was roportcd as early
as ;,arch 1950. Yar,;thissa l may be Sulo (Kashgar Yra gi. Shahr,
76?-OG, 6J-25), where an airfield :x .steel in ~.ay 1947.
Com ent. This possibly indicates the area from Yehencoh? tang
(Yurka:ad, 77--20, 3v-25j to Sulo.
nt. This is possibly i[usu Ordnance l$epots.
wusu (34-37, 44-27).
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