BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION, LUNGHAI RAILWAY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013700260008-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 2, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2002/08/09 : CIA-RDP82-00457E 013700260008-8
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY s~ / ), I
CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFuRMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
CD NO.
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Bridge Construction, Lunghai Railway
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DATE DISTR. 2 September 1952
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1. The Ministry of Railways plans to complete and place the Ttienshui--Lanchou
section of the Lunghai Railway in operation by October 1952.1
20 The Ministry has built a bridge factory at Tutlangch+iaochen (2629/2768/2890/6966),,
east of Vienshui9 to speed up construction and to insure that this goal is
met. Bridge sections were previously shipped to the erection site,, but ship-
ments were often delayed and the sections sometimes did not meet bridge speci-
fications. The bridge factory which was built on the suggestion of Hsi-l.n (6007/
2651), a Soviet bridge specialist, is under the direct control of the Northwest
Railway Engineering Administration. It presently employs 1,300 workers and daily
produces 20 reinforced concrete frames,2
1o Comment. Radio Peiping announced that track-laying on the T"ienshui-
Lanchou section was completed on 23 August and that the line would be formally
opened to traffic on 1 October,
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hIs railroad had reach ignsland the road bed had been completed to Lanchou
by mid-June. Most of the bridges they saw on the Tfienshui-Tinghsi section
'were temporary wooden astr?uctur s 9 which they believed, would have 'to be replaced
by more per aneht- installations,
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