SURVEYS SOUTH CHINA HIGHWAY NETWORK IMPROVEMENTS, TRAFFIC, PLANS

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• Document Release Date: September 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 362
• Publication Date: September 25, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Transportation - Highways
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
PUBLISHED Hong Kong; Hanoil
DATE
PUBLISHED 22 Jun - 18 Aug 1951
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DATE OF
INFORMATION 1951
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMA1iON
SURVEYS SOUTH CHINA HIGHWAY NETWORK:
IMPROVE1,1ENTS.? TRAFFIC, PLANS
SOUTHEAST KWANGTUNG HIGHWAY NETWORK CARRIES HEAVY TRAFFIC -- Hong Kong, Hsing-tao
Jih-pao, 31 Jul 51
Tung-kuan -- Connecting this city with the surrounding countryarenthe Kuan-highway
T'ai highway (Tung-kuan--T'ai-p ing Lnew name for Hu-mon,),
(Tung-kuan=-Shah-lung), and the Kuan-Chang highway (Tung-kuan--Chang-mu-t'ou).
There are also connections from Tung-kuan through T'ai-p'ing with Shen-ch'uan in
Pao-an Hsien. This indicates the existence of a highway skirting the coast all
the way from T'ai-p'ing to Shen-ch'uan near the British-leased New Territory
Hsin-hui -- As a result of the labor of several thousand peasants
dinher-
supply of funds for road-surfacing materials and bridge repair by parties
ested in transportation, the highway between Hsin-hui and Hao-shan, including
the Tu-yuan and Ching-ken bridges, is now in good condition and is being heavily
used. The same is true of the road from
Hsin-hui hiumhsug,iincludinggOthree
bridges, to the road in Kai-p'g Hsien the ch'u
of the hsien and the Hu-shan bridge in the first ch'u. The road passing through
San-chow, Kao-ming, and Hsin-hsu, closed for 14 gears, and which required the
repair of five bridges, including the Tsang Chiang bridge, is also in good con-
dition and is being heavily used.
DESCRIBES CONDITIONS ON CENTRAL KWANGTUNG HIGHWAY -- Hong Kong, Hsing-tao Jih-pao,
22 Jul 51
Canton, 21 July -- Following the ceremony on 1 July 1951 marking the comple-
tion of the Central Kwangtung Highway which traverses Nan-hai, Shun-te, and Chung-
shan hsiens and connects Canton and Macao, it was intended to open it up for
through traffic. However, due to heavy and continued rains, the roadbed has been
washed out in a number of places. Furthermore, the facilities for crossing the
water at San-hung-chi and Pai-hao-tong were still unsatisfactory. Consequently,
only portions of the highway were usable. Through traffic was obliged temporarily
to use the road which passea from Macao
thro Nan-shan,Shih-ch'i,Hsiao-lan,
Yang-o in Shun-te Hsien, and P'ing- a
the Chiang-Fo (Chiang-men--Fo-shan) highway and thus to Fo-shan.
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large military forces could operate in t s area operations, or to meet any pos-
tionary bandits who make this 'a~eantheir
an invading pNationalist force.
mounts r.o because
n Fukien. This was deemed necessary to exterminate counterrevolu-
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us border region of eastern ' without passable roads no
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Swatow, 11 August -- For more than half a year the military authorities of
-1onninz and constructing roads through the
DISCUSSES HIGHWAYS CONSTRUCTED IN SOUTHEAST CHINA -- Hong Kong, Hsing-tao Jih-pao,
and Mai-mao.
It is now learned that with has to be surfs ed, 3 kilometers between
the rest of the
Canton and Pai-hao-lung, San-hung-ch'i, Ta-chiao, and Shih-
Centrel Kwangtung highway through Yang-o,
Chou in Nan-hai Hsien, is now
-
st 1951 it will be and Wu -
tou the (in shun tis pected that byaldAugung possible to cover
finished. bus in 4 hours.
the distance from Macao to Canton by ~
HEAVY TRAFFIC CROWDS FO-SHAN--FORT BAYARD HIGHWAY -- Hong Kong, Hsing-tao
Jih-pao, 5 Aug 51
Nan-hai The important trunk highway from Fo-shan to Fort Bayard (Chan-tra chiang) in southern hugo-shan, K'ai p'ing, pEr p' ng, Ya g chiang, Huafhsien
The highway passes s through HHaa
Kiangsi can e road L to avoid the difficulties and ,dangArrairnineturns ofJSan-hsia-chi and T- iaceo?
number 01 yCUlo. - Kan-Chou in Kiangsi, auu .- -----
reach Hsun-wu, Hui-ch ang, a d route also makes it possible
b brought into eastern Kwangtung. This through P'ing-
e
due to damages sustained in of
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something over 70 li. The construe in 1928 and opened to traffic in 1933.
small bridges, was originally beg
War of Resistance, it has been impasanlecaTr a
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Niu Highway has been completed. a distance
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hsiens. -1-Lo ..~~.. _ --
For communications between Kwangtung and Kiangsi, the newly constructed Che-
Thi extends from Ta-che in Ping-Yuan Hsien,
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Jao-p'ing Hsien. From Yung-ling,
by Fukien provincial roads,.passes through piing-ho,
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past Ta-to-k'eng and the MS
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In the spring of 1951, the construction was under a
in nKwangtung orthward~nd
to
equal 1 mile highway starting from the~hsien city of Ch'ao-an,
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Canton, 25 June -- The provincial highway from s g
Kiangsi, was repaired by the Transportation Department of the Kwangtung
Hsun-wu, s opened to traffic in June 1951?
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REPAIRS KW H i Kwangtung, to
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NGTUNG-KIANGSI HIGHWAY -- Hong Kong, Hsing-tao Jih-pao, 26 Jun 5'_
Field Army troops in northern
in this border region by t e Kwangtung and southern Kiangsi.
Furthermore, mill ua+ J ... ' -'
plans can not be made for a concerted attack against
at any time , I Or h Third Field Army elements in Fukien and the Fourth
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provincial government an
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REPAIRS KWANGTUNG-FUKIE?N HIGHWAY -- Hanoi, Tai-p'ing-yang Jih-pao, 6 Jul 51
Canton--The 130-11 highway from Chao-an, Kwangtung, to Ling-chi, Fukien,
through Jao-chih in Jao-p'ing Hsien, and Ho-p'ing, is being repaired by the
Kwangtung provincial government. Repair work is expected to be completed before
August 1951.
BIG HIGHWAY BRIDGE AT KUFI-LIN COLLETED -- Hong Kong, Hsing-tao Jih-pao, 6 Aug 51
Kuei-lin, 5 August -- The highway bridge formerly known as the "Chung-cheng
Bridge," and renamed the "Chieh-fang Bridge," which has been under rec:.nstruction
since mid-February 1950, is now completed and was formally opened for traffic in
ceremonies held on 30 July 1951. This bridge spans the Li Chiang and connects
the oortion of the city east of the river with the main business part of the city.
This bridge will make possible motorcar connection witn an important section of
the countryside, and remove the danger of having the motor traffic with Heng-yang
cut off during the rainy season.
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