ECONOMIC; POLITICAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600250852-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 852
• Publication Date: October 4, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENC 2f "a} to QV
COUNTRY Communist China
SUBJECT Economic; Political
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Hong Kong
DATE
PUBLISHED 8 Aug - 6 Sep 1949
LANGUAGE Chinese
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!HIS IS UNF,'ALUATED INFORMAION
WORKERS UGEES, FACTORIES LEAVE SHANG-HAI
SHANTUNG RECRUITS WORKERS -- Wen-hui Pau, 19 Aug 49'It:
The Shantung Inftstry and Mining Bureau is now in great ne,:d of skilled workers.
Yang Kuo-min (Ueda: 5123, 1639, 5935) and Eau Ta-hero (3141, 1946, 4376) have been
sent to Shams-hai to recruit skilled workers. They Pre screening the hwavy-industry
canter in East Shang-hai to get unemployed persons t; go to Shantung to take p.rt
in production. Airaady they have secured 44 men. Others are needm4, according to a
classified list of vacancies, and those who are qualified and wish to go to Shantung
for work may do sc.
It is also learned that the governor of Sungkiang Province and the head of the
Ha-e.,h-pin Engineering College have visited Shang-hai to recruit a large number
of college professors and skilled laborers to share in the reconstruction 6f the
Northeast.
The Shang-hai branch of the Scientific Workers' Society is registering skilled
workers for the purpose of putting them in touch with vacancies in various liberated
REFUGEES BEING RETURNED TO VILLAGES -- Ta ;:utg Pan, 6 Ang 49
Shang-hai, 7 August -- The returning of refugees in Shang-hai to their native
villages started at the end of June 1949. The East China Bureau of the CCP Central
Committee announced on 24 July 1949 that since Shang-hai is suffering from the
Nationa'.ist blockade and from its huge population of refugees, in order to ease
the city's burdens and to reduce unemployment in Sharg??hai it is absolutely necessary
that these refugees and unemployed people in Shang-hai be returned to their native
villages to help increase farm production. All those who are now unemployed, or are
refugees In Shang-hai, are not allowed to apply for any temporary relief programs in
this area, but must comply with this government directive.
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T.ie announcement stated that in order to accomplish this program satisfactorily,
the government is planning to take the following steps: (1) education of the refugees
in order to etirnilate voluntary returning to their native villages, (2) cooperation
with the farm organizations to facilitate the placement of returnees in production
plans, (3) cooperation with relief organizations to assist in the resettlement of
returnees, (4) employment of returnees in reclamation projects in Hopeh and Anhwei;
(5) furnishing of transportation, and (6) extension of financial aid by the central
and provincial governments.
SHA.NG-BAI FACTORIES MOVE INLAND -- Ta Kung Pao, 1 Sep 49
A number of factories in Strang-hai have decided to move to such cities as T'ien-
ching, K'ai-feng, etc. For example, the To-ch'ang Egg Products Plant has begun the
move to K'ai.,fong; the Ta-bua Dyeing Plant has decided to move to Tien-ching; the
Rua-fu Electric Fixtures Plant is moving to T ien-ching; the Ya-mei Electric Bulb
Factory 'Is seeking a site in T'ien-ching; the Chung-yuan Telephone Instrument Factory
is planning to go to the Northeast; and the Ling-en Electric Fixture Plant expects
to met up a branch in Shantung.
PENCIL FACTORIES MOVE TO NORTHEAST -- Ta Kung Pao, 22 Aug 49
Shang-hai, 21 August -- Two factories in Shang-hai, the China Standard Pencil
cooperate with the 71a-erh-pin Enterpr"se Corporation (ch'i-yeh kung_asu). Thirty
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DiQS- INVITED TO NORTHEAST -- Wen-hui Pao, 6 Sep 49
Hsi-an -- The Northwest Textile Development Company has sent three telegrams to
public and private cotton mills in Shang-hai inviting them to move to the Northwest.
The telegrams stated that the various provinces in the Northwest produce large quantities
of cotton and wool, and that the area is quite favorable for the development of the
textile industry.. They also stated that Shensi Province produces an average of
over one million piculs of cotton annually, the quality of which is very good; and
that in all Shensi there are only about 90,000 spindles, leaving much room for
expansion of the industry.
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