ECONOMIC INFORMATION: INDUSTRIES ON KUANTUNG PENINSULA

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SUBJECT Economia Informatiant Industrie* et Kuantung
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n us r a situation on the Kuantung Pen-
?m r before the japOsse capitulation in 1945 up to late 1947. It
is assumed that some of the ultimltts.spurce material is from documents published
by the various companies describe 'ii/De and/or the South Manchurian Railway.)
Mining ,,11
1. Tho chief mining products of the thitntung Peninsula are dolomite, limostonc,
refractory clay and silica; othera .sre gold, asbestos, iron, coal, pyrites,
manganese, barite, fluorite, alumina and marble. The dolomite mines at Port
Arthur, Dairen and Chinchou (121-43,39-05), though not widely distributed, rank
first in the Kuantung mining industry because of their abundant reserves, the
high quality of their product and the convenient transportation facilities which
service them. A by-product of these mines is limestone, from which lime was once
produced in an inefficient, native fashion until the establishment in 1909 of the
Konoda ( ) Cement Company in Chounhuitzu (121-33, 38-57). Refractory clay
is found in abundance in Taweichistun (121-41, 39-12) and was considered one of
the Kuantung Peninsula's most imPort4nt resources, since firebrick was one of the
chief exports to Japan and Manchuria. Silica in large reserves and of high qualits
was produced by the mines at Daire4 Lungtou (121-18, 38-52) and Pulantien (121.-
57, 39-24), Kuantung's important ganters of the ceramic industry. Gold deposits
and placer gold are distributed widal.y throughout the Kuantung area, and, at the
time of the Russo-Japanese War, gold4was the most frequently mentioned metal in
the Kuantung Bureau of Mines' Registration Book, having been mentioned 104 times.
During Manchukuo days, the Japanese planned the exploitation of the gold mines
near Fulantien? Pitzuwo (122-21, :39-24) and Port Arthur, but when half-completed,
the plans were discarded because 41cu1ations indicated that the results vDuld
not be worth the investment. The, dolomite mine at Chinchou was one of the most
promising of the various Kuantung:mines, and the Japanese endeavored continuously
to expand it and improve transportation facilities to and from the mine up until
V-J Day.. The mine's reserve is abupdant and the quality of the ore is excellent.
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2. The following ars some of the impprtent mining companies in the Kuantung.PeninsulaI
a. Dolomite: The South Manchuria tOlomite Corporation was the chief producer of
dolomite on the Peninsula and wag' cppitalized at one million yen. Its principal
equipment included three 5 hp. copical roll mills, three 5 hp. "rushers, three
"Cyclone separators, and five fUtnaces, each of ten-ton capacity. Reserves
of dolomite were estimated at seVeral hundred million tons. The Corporation's
factory at Nankuanling (121-354-r-00) produced powdered dolomite of 20)-mesh
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for the manufacture of plastere i ifty 'tons of plaster could be obtained. daily
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from n daily supply of 200 tone fl-dolomite ore. Dairen, Manchuria, and Jepan
furnished the chief markets fon plaster, which was used for architecture' pur-
poses. The Corporation normally einployed about 50 Japanese and 200 Chines
on a contract basis. Miners waSae faid according to the quantity of or thco,
mined per day and received an ii(rege of 10 yen per day. ,
Since V-J Day, the demand for b ding-plaster in Dairen-ham fallen off com-
pletely, but an appropriation .o pne.million yen haa been granted by the Re-
construction Department of the )?tung Bureau for the Corporation's preaent
development of dolomite for th nuf&cture of dry ice.
b. Lime: An endless reserve of lime ras found in the limestone formations stret-
ching from Chowshuitzu to Chine* and north to Pulantien, and well-developed
transportation facilities render:, It highly productive. Limestone from. the
Kanchingtzu (122-05, 39-ef dig:0 of Dairen was used. In the manufacture of
flux for casting iron, and thate rom Choushuitzu was used in the manufacture of
high-quality cement. ne1
u. Refractory clay: The Kuantung Bettery Industry, the Eawazaki ( iit 0,t4 3 5.,-)tter,i'
Company and many small factorielt various towns on the keninsula manufactured
firebrick from the high-qualityTeTractory clay which is found in endless reservii
near Tamichistun. The industry suffered little loss after V-J Day.
d. Silica: As a raw material in tlie manufacture of glass silica was one C the
most important products of the'POinsula's mining industry. In 1945 the South
Manchurian Railway Company and 010 Asahi ( )0 ) Glass Corporation jointly
raised a fund of three million ie, and established the Shelve ( * :wei ) Claes
Corporation to manufacture p1aWk1as34- but the war came to an end just AE pro-
duction got under way. Under Soviet management, the factory is functioning once
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again.
e. Asbestos; The Chinchou Asbesto4 Corporation, of which the chief sharehcider
. was the FUkusho ( Al 10 ) Comp9y,? was capitalized at three-million yan and
was ready for full exploitation- the dolomite deposits at Chinehou whea the
war ended. Its principal equ1pmi4t included one 100 hp0 press, two 30 he. hoistn,
five rock drills, one flatting ayene mill, run by horsepower, two 10 hp, pumpss:
two trucks and one "Cyclone seperator. Before the establishment of thie eor-
poration, asbestos waa produced b( native hand labor from dolomite at the daily
rate of 600 pounds per five tone -9; ore. The vein runs about 500 feet toward
the water level at 30-degree inclination and is about 325 feet wide. Th c chief
market for the finished product 10a furnished by Dairen, although a emalni uuan-
tity-was used by the Ironworks 44Anshan (122-57, 41-04).
The Corporation normally emp1oy0 ej2;oapanese and about 80 Chine workr:7 on
a contract basis, paying each ot them an average of 10 yen per day, Afte:,- V-J 13.7;
the only piece of equipment remapiting VMS the press.
On 20 February 1947 SHIBATA Takpnil P','4', 15 JA Ae...)? a technician with 'ille for-
mer Fukusho Company, was employed IV the Soviet authorities to supervise the
reopening of the mine underSovie,t administration.
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Ceramic and Allied Industries
3. The resources of lime, dolomite, reipictory clay, silica and potter's clay -leers
sufficient not only to meet the nee ilq of the ceramic enterprises of Port AAhur
and Dairen, but also to provide prodaects for export to Japan, Korea, Manchuria and
China. Inepite of its rich reservesp; raw materials, however, the ceramics industry
ranked only fifth in the number of fedtories, sixth in capital investment aed sixth
in value of production among industlies on the Kuantung Peninsula. The onle ceramion
or allied firms capitalized at more4han five million yen were the Shako Glees
Corporation and the Konoda (A, 117,W7) Cement Company. Those with capital of one
million yen or more were the Southechurian Dolomite Company, the Great China Potte
Company and the Dairen Pottery Comp fiAr. ether concerns with less than one nallion
yen capital were low-grade factorieSepploying inferior equipment and techWaieeEe
Nevertheless, as demands for the iqeatries' products increased, so did the produc-
tion, as indicated in the followingrert:
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141 29,9759000 n 21,14,00.,000
159 V 34,421,000 " 21,718,000 el
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4. In 1942, the various ceramic industries and the number of factories in opera-
tion in each of these induotries on the Kuantung Peninsula were as follows:
a. Pottery Ware
Porcelain Tableware 1
Glass Vessels 3
Earthern Pipe (all sizes) 1
Jars (earthernwart ?) 6
b. Glass and Glass Products
Plate Glass 1
Glassware 1
Bottles 9
Mirrors 1
CD Brick
Common Brick 4
Firebrick 8
Special types 1
d. Cement and Cement Products
Cement 1
Cement Pipe
Dirt Box 3.7"
MiumaTipe 1
Cement Tile 12
Lime 27,
f. Magnesite and Dolomite
Heavy Magnesia 2
Light Magnesia 1
Dolomite 14
g. Refined Lime Products
Talc Powder 2
Silica Sand 1
Silica Powder 2
Feldspar Powder 1
Lime Epidote 1
Marble 1
h. Other Products
Enamelware 2
Japanese Tile 3
Tile(?) 6
Magnesium Tile 2
Black Lead Puwder
Black Lead Crucibles 1
Total number of factories 119
Of the above industries, the largest were the Glass and Glees Producte, Porcelain
Tableware, Plate Glass, Firebrick, Cement and Dolomite Industries.
The FirebricUndusta
5. Directly before V-J Day those companies engaged in producing firebricke on the
Kuantung Penineula and their individual production capacities were as follovis:
Company, Location Products Annua?roductioCit
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Dairen Pottery-Company Dairen 40,000
Magnesia Brick
Standard Brick
Eiko ( a )
Pottery Company
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Kawazaki ( 11( 114 )
Pottery Company
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Pottery Company
Koashin (t& )
Pottery-Company
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Matsushita ( Is ) Dairen Standard Brick 2,300
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The Procelain Industry
6. The oldest and largest porcelain company on the keninsula was the Great Cline
(Daika) Pottery Company; which was established in 1921 with a capital of team
million yen. Prior to V-J Day this company manufactured electrical insuletors
and poecelain tableware designed to suit the tastes of Chinese consumer, Its
tunnel kiln was the only modern equipment of its kind on the Peninsula aria was
installed for the manufacture of insulators. Since V-J Day the Company'e pro-
duction has ceased completely,
The Glees Industry
/. The largest plai-e'glass producer on the Peninsula was the Shoko Giese Comrenal
in 1936 its production was eighty million square feet of plate glase. nnether
important glase producing company was the aouth Manchurian Giese Company; which
specialized in the manufacture of cut glees and glass tableware considerea to
bo among the best in Japan. Still another important producer the glast in-
dustry was"the Tokyo Electric Works' Electric Bulb Factory. Both the South Nan-
churian Glass Company and the Tokyo electric Works' Electric Bulb Factory are
operatina, but on a very small scale.
The Cement Industny
The Konoda Cement Compeny was the only cement producer on the kerinsnle 4
established in 1909 it was furnished with the latest equipment, arid soon It was ?
producing 50,000 tone of cement a year.
Before V-J Day the company owned two 60-meter ki1na and two smaller ones, but
since then all the equipment except for one kiln has been destroyed and the
present production dapacity is only 200 tons per month.
Textile industzny
9. in comparison with the other industries In the Port Arthur and Dairen area, the
textile industry was never very important. The cotton cloth and yarn produced
were mainly for local consumption, very little being sent to other parts of
Manchuria.
10, The principle textile firm in the Dairen and }'ort Arthur area for the pt
years has been the Naigai Cotton Company in Chinchou, approximately 12 miles
north of Dairen, Ewen though the company has aiwaye found it difficult to obtain
sufficient quantities of raw cotton, it never has ceased operetions. aver, einem
Vail Day it has continued to operate under Soviet management and; for a while:,
inported cotton from Shantung krovince via Chefoo (Yentai,-121-24, 37-32),
a. On or about V-eT Day. the Naigai Cotton Company nad the following inetallations
and equipment:
Spinning ane Weaving Mill #1, equipped with 30,000 spindles
Spinning ane Weaving Mill #2, equipped with 50,000 spindles, 1;120 lace and
1,152 Japanese mantle' spinning whee1e.
apinning ane Weavina Mill #3, equipped with 30,000 spindles and 1,152 looms.
b. Prior to V-J Day, the Naigai Cotton Company used 300,000 picul (1 picule 60 kg
. 100 eatty) of raw cotton annually, 10,000 tons of coal annually, 1,000,C0C kw
of eiectrioitysontbly and 10,000 tons of water monthly. Wath all its factorie,
in full operation, the Company employed 100 Japanese (technicians?) and 101000
Chinese. It produced cotton yarn, cotton cloth, cotton twill and cotton flannel,
c. Since V-J Day, only 30,000 spindles have been in operation and onla ant-reel-
mately 3,000 persons are employed by the company. It has been very difficult
for the company to import raw cotton, coal and new parts for the spinnine and
weaving machines formerly supplied by Japan. In addition, the heating insta-
llations have broken down.
MachinenzIndustana
11. Dairen Machinery Company : Founded in 1919 by TAKADA? Tomokichi ( ij
this company's chief products were railroad rolling stock, including locoaotivee,
passenger cars and freight cars; tractors, vehicles for use in the varleue in
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dustries such as dump-carts, fire-engines, cars for use in mines, etc., railway
frogs, oil tanks, steel castings, iron castings, machine tools and manufactured
oxygen. Prior to V-J Day the Dairen Machinery Company had the monthly produc-
tion capacity of 12 locomotives, 20 passenger cars, 500 freight cars, 500 cars
for use in the various industries, two tractors and 15 railroad switches and
railroad frogs. After V-J Day a considerable amount of the equipment in the
various installations of the Dairen Machinery Company was removed (? by the Soviet
authorities ?). As a result, moat of the company's factories now contain no very
complicated machinery but merely simple machine tools. At the present time, the
company's chief products are hand carts, boilers, pipe fittings and shovels..
However, under the control of the Dairen Machinery Company there is also an ten
plant *Leh is the sole supplier of manufactured oxygen in Dairen. Although some
of the factory's equipment was removed (?by the Soviet authorities?), the factory
has continued to operate at the request of the Soviet "Bureau of Materials Control"
in Dairen. Recently, milling, shaping and drilling machines and tool grinders
were installed so that the necessary repairs could be made. The factory's monthly
production in August 1947 was 2,500 cylinderiof unknown size) of oxygen, LO cylindtr-
(of unknown size) of nitrogen and a certain amount of compressed air. Th s chief
raw material required is caustic 'soda, which was formerly obtain-ad from the Man-
churian Soda Company in Kanchingtzu (122-05, 39-29). The Oxygen Factory will be
compelled to stop production as soon as its present stock of caustic soda is ex-
hausted.
12. Dairen Factory for the Repairing of Locomotives and Passenger and Freight Cars
the Chinese Changchun Railway, formerly the South Manchurian Railway Factory:
Although originally established in 1907 to do repair work on railway rolling
stock and manufacture railway equipment, this factory at the time of V-J Day was
also manufecturing machinery required by electrical power plants, coal mines and
iron foundries. Prior to V-J Day, this company had the capacity to produce 40
new locomotives and repair 260 annually; to produce 20 new passenger cars and re-
pair 500 annually and to produce 300 freight cars and repair 2,800 annually. Sinc.
V-J Day the factory has been able to operate only on a small scale because of its
inability to obtain the necessary raw materials. The factory's equipment was,
however, neither seriously damaged during the war, nor removed (7 by the Soviet
authorities?) after V-J Day.
Iron and Steel Industries
13. The Great ChinalDaiKa; Mining Company in Dairen: This company was
by UBJIMA, Keitoku (17- get g ) in 1920, upon the request ef the
Department, to manufacture sped-lel kinds of steel. Directly before
company's products and annual production capacity were as follows:
Products Annual Production Capacity Qtric
High-speed Steel 300.
Tool Steel 600
Nickel Steel and Chromium Steel 1,000
Stainless Steel 10
Ball-bearing Steel 1,000
Chrome-nickel Steel ?,500
Piano Wire 5
Steel Castings 1,000
Submarine Cables 2,000
Carbide 1,200
Welding Wire 10
The Great China (DaiKa) Mining Company obtained the following required ran
materials from the following places:
Raw Material
Ferro Tungsten
Chrome
Nickel
Ferromanganese
Vanadium
Cobalt
Zirconium
Carbon
?Silicon and Manganese
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U.S.A. (via Japan)
Chungju: Korea
Manchuria & Japan
England& Belgium via Japan
Brazil and Florida
Japan, England and Belgium
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Niuhsintai (123-54. L1-21)
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Directly after V-J Day, most of the company's equipment was greatly damaged
(? by the residents of Dairen?). However, when conditions became normal again,
the sSoviet Bureau of Materials Control" supervised the repair work reeded on
the installations, helped the company obtain the necessary raw materials and
secured for it 30 new lathes. As a result, the company is now able to opeeate
but only at 20% of its efficiency prior to V-J Day. The company's produets and
annual production capacity are now as follows:
Product Annnalnproduction
High-speed steel 50 metric tons
Stainless steel and ball 100 "
bearing steel
Piano wire 600 kg
Farming spades 200 metric tons
?teal castings 1,0000 kg
Silica bricks 200 "
Ferroalloy 1 netric ton
Carbide 200 metric tons
Welding wire 1 metric ton
14 Kanchingtzu (122-05, 39-29) Factory
Directly before V-J Day this factory
and production figures for 1944 were
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employed 1,600 employees. Its products
as follows:
of Production in.1tris_tons)
3:3.6
Nails
Barbed wire
7.4
Bolts
11,5
Nuts
3.5
Rivets
9.4
Spikes
2.0
Steel balls - 100 mm and
6.0
30 mm
9.5
Hammers (? heads?)
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Galvanized wire
100.0
Communications wire
2.6
Steel ingots
11.5
Twisted wire
8.2
Rolled steal
20.0
The equipment of this company was not heavily damaged after V-J Day., Only 40
machines for the manufacture of rails and 48 wire-drawing machine were reeorted
removed (? by the Soviet authorities?) shortly after V-J Days Since then the
company has been under the control of the "Soviet Bureau of Materials Control"
and has been operating on a small scale by using its reeerve materials. The
company's products and monthly production are now as follows:
Product Mnatgankroduction
Nails 20 metric tons
Barbed wire 120 " "
Axes 6,500 pieces
Wood screws le5 metric tons
Horse shoes 15,000 pieces
Hammers 1,800 "
15. Manchuria Chemical Industrial horks at Kanchingtzu: This company was eataUished
in 1936 by the South Manchurian Railway Company in order to supply Japan with
ammonium sulphate. The synthetic process for manufacturing ammonia, tried out
for the first time successfully in Germany, was adopted. The company's rain
source of coal came from Fushun and its sulphide minerals frmn Japan. /1,.)t only
did the company use cheap coal, but it also employed impoverished farmers from
North China at extremely low wages, However, because of the leek of sufficient
electrical power, because of the difficulty to obtain coal in Manchuria and be-
cause of the impossibility of importing sulphide minerals from Japan after the
outbreak of the war, the company's annual production dropped considerable. Fur-
ther, at the time of V-J Day, the installations were a1rea4 in urgeret need of
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a complete renovation. Directly before the end of the war, the company s pro-
ducts and annual production capacity were as follows:
Product Annual roduction Cenacito metric tong
Ammonium sulphate 240,000
Amnonium nitrate 6,500
Nitric acid (500 Be) 158,000
Concentrated sulphuric acid (6010Be) 6,000
1,300
7,000
1,000
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Benzol
Tar
Creosote
Pitch
Coarse naphthalene
Anthracene
After V-J Day approximately 60% of the main factory of this company was dis-
mantled by the Soviet Army, while such eubsidiary factories as the nitrates
factory and the factory for the refining of naphathalene were completely dis-
mantled. Only the company's sulphuric acid factory and ite coke furnaces and
gas tanks were left intact.
In August 1947 the company was able to produce the following products: sulphuric
acid for batteries, briquettes, aluminum sulphate dyes, copper sulphate; iron
sulphate and hydrochloric acid.
16, The Manchurian Soda Company in Kanchingtzu: This company wee established in
1936 to manufacture soda ash, soda salts and their by-produces, Directly be-
fore V-J Day, the company's chief products were as follows:
Product
Soda ash 200 metric tons daily
Caustic soda 2,500 metric tons annually
Calcium chloride 1,000 - 1,500 metric tons annually
After V-J Days the principal installations of this company were not veverely
dismantled, but all the conveyor belts and a considerable number of electrical
motors were stolen. However, between March 1946 and September 1946, when the
caustic soda factory of the company waa under the control of the Soviet authori-
ties in Dairen, it was renovated and production mas resumed. The caustic soda
factory is the only factory of the Manchurian Soda Company in Kanchingteu now
in operation and is now producing casutic soda, sodium thiosulphato, soda crys-
tals and table salt,
Petroleum Indueteny
17 Manchurian Petroleum Company: This company was established in 1935 at Kanching-
tzu for the purpose of exploiting the petroleum resources in Manchuria, refining
imported crude oil and manufacturing various mineral oils. Directly before V-
J Day its principal products were gasoline, kerosene, light oil, heavy eil,
lubricating oil, asphalt and paraffin.
After V-J Dm, almost all of the most modern equipment for manufacturine high
grade lubricating oils and paraffin were removed (7 by the Soviet authorities?).
However, at the present time, the company is still able to optrate? but on a
very small ocale? producine soap, margarine and shoe polieh.
Smpean Oil 4:ndnelty
18. The soybean oil induatry in Dairen was coneidered, before V-J Day, the unet
profitable and prosperous industry on the Kuantnng Peninsula. With the inAw.c.
duction in 1911 of naw techniques for the extraction of oil from the moebean,
the production capacity of the soybean oil industry in Dairen was ereativ in-
creased. The following are some of the principal soebean oil factories In
Dairen and its vicinity directly befoee V-J ear
a, Japan-China Oil Company:
Prior to V-J Day, this company had the following five main installattoes: a
factory for the eetraction of oil from the soya bean, refinery, puriAcatioe
plant, flour mill and a mixed grain mill. Its principal products weee perilla
oil, sesame oil, castor oilicrude oil, refined edible oil, flour and mexed
cereals,
,afterV-J Day, although most of the company's principal equipment wee :,eft un-
7,1104, a considerable amount of motors and conveyor belt were removed by
the Soviet authorities?). At the present time the company is now opc3rati1g 00.
a very small scale, employing 18 Japanese, 150 Chinese and 18 Soviet cltizens.
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b. Soybean Chemical Workss Directly before V-J Day, this company was ordered
by the Japanese Army authorities to send some of the thachiner7 in its Dairen
factories to its Tunghua (45-57, 41-43) factory, which was then being built,
and most of the remaining machinery to a soybean oil factory in Antung (124-
23, 40-)9), While the removal of all this equipment from Dairen was taking
place, the war came to an end. Most of the equipment intended for Tunghua
and Antung never did reach those cities, being lost along the way in the
confusion that followed the capitulation of Japan.
c. Henan Olt ) Oil Company: Directly before V-J Day, this company was
operating a factory for the extraction of benzene (? from soybean oil?)
and a refinery. The principal equipment of the benzene extraction factory
included three "bean selection machines", 20 "rollers", two drying machines,
one tank for measurement of liquids, three machines for distillation measure-
ments, 16 tanks for the extraction of benzene and two benSene,dietillerse
The principal equipment of the refinery of the Ronan Oil Company included
fourteen tanks, 16 flat boilers, three vacuum deodorant receptacles and three
filter presses.
Atter V-J Day, most of the belts were removed (? by the Soviet authorities?)
from the installations of the Bonen Oil Company. They were, however, later
replaced by cotton belts which have not proved very practicable. The cakpany
now employs 230 ?Chinese and 10 Japanese.
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