SHIPBUILDING ACTIVITIES, SOUTHEAST CHINA COAST

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007300140002-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 21, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY China
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT` NO,.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO..
DATE DISTR, 21 Uarch 1951
SUBJECT Shipbuilding Activities, Southeast China Coast
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ACQUIRED ~
DATE OF
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proxiu"tely 1,~,?0 ou~~loyees. Iie ::sanager is LIIT Hsiang i whose
younger brother LW Tsun ) was the former irationa it 1TuvaL Attache
in i3achizy ton. AIi:'rox1u toly 12 Soviet advisers are at the yard; they are
in charge of descanting the craft, the installation and r.o?,air of guns. and
the fin4:l checking of the vessels built.
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1. In uid-February a shipyard at Ts'an'ch'ionshan ( ) Foochow) had ap-
`'. In early February work trac co..r~ ~leted on landirkg craft of ?4C)? tons
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3. In :-id-1'ebrzu:ry re-)airs -nct the installation of new trec:.,:one on ~:,r::roxirk tely
50 former :' :tionaiist na w.l cr-ft eras being; ruched at "hau.)oa slir,yards,
which now have modern :soviet L:wchinory as a result of recent expansion.
4.In raid-Iobruary a lar ; ratot s li_~y;:rd, for t'io constrL?ction of frei,,htors
and --:u?rts for naval crc:ft,'hat an ~roxi ::tely 1&) Soviet technicic.no. In
at this slacl)ywrd. This wort. was done in(3)uont
rts. "ash of these tiveosolc
was painted silver gray and li, _t blue man yr s, ec'ui~-,ec. with 4 x 15 ?: guns,
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early Pebrt ry the construction of five for ;edo boats eras co..:-,letecl. cat this
,a. There is a s.. ,11 s`:i :,..rd "t C.z' ngchou (113-26, 23-04) for tho construction
of wooden boats. In o~::r1yrobru::.iv a^>>ra~ir,tely 30 s2a11 lundinC craft
were built there and turned over to the chi-inya.rds c.t '.'ha:.pow for ar.::v1ac nt U
instc 11c:tion.
6. In early ::arch a..?,nroximately 30 wooden boats, constructed at the 'To To (x~'' )
Doc'-yrxd, Yun,-chi!.nr_* (111-53, 221-415P,), were toned to t'_e 7'sing ;,',ens; 3ha (iL
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=`j ) lla-chine Slurp, Chcangehou, for the fitting of engines ~Lrd steel plate.
25X1 X :each boat was 30 feet long and 12 feet pride. the
"o Too Doc r .rc3 has a contract with the T.wangtau ; a::thorities to build 200
25X1 X such craft before the and of Juno 1951.
^ ?. In aid !arch an-proximately 200 new Junks here being equipped with one or two
engines each at a Ch'angchou ship;rard. Whose with two engines were a-)i>roxi-
riately 100-ton vessels tend were fitted with a quaall cranes.
25X1 A COMent. See - and references, and-for recent
25X1A ro-:,orts on shipbuilding; activities along the Southe?.st China coast.
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