INFORMATION ON FAMINE RELIEF IN EAST CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700130497-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 497
• Publication Date: September 22, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION RESTRICTED
SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Economic; Sociological. - Agriculture, food
supply, famine
REPORT
CD NO.
DATE OF
HOW DATE DIST. ZVSep 1953
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Peiping, Tientsin NO. OF PAGES 2
DATE
PUBLISHED 31 May, 15 Jun 1953
LANGUAGE Chinese
INFORMATION ON FAMINE RELIEF IN EAST CHINA
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L .-Imary: Since April, the Central People's Government has sent
over 900,000 tons of food into famine stricken areas in Honan, Anhwei,
Kiangsu, and Shantung. China is said to have enough food, but the
problem is to get the food within reach of the hungry. Food supplies
Plowing into East China famine areas for the past month have stabi-
lized the market. Production and relief work are said to be progress-
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FOOD MD.STRY SPOKESMAN DISCU1SES RELIEF MEASURJ -- Peiping, Jen-min Jih-pao,
31 May 5s
Since April 1553, the Central People's Government has sent over 900,000 tone
of food into vhe famine stricken areas in Honan, Anhwei, Kiangsu, and Shantung,
according to a spokesman of The Food Ministry. This food, added to that already
on hand in the state companies, cooperatives, and peasants' homes, will tide the
people over the present emergency, he said.
Prices are remaining fairly stable. The present mobility of grain supplies
contrasts favorably with conditions under the old regime, when grain was imported
from the seaboard while stocks in Szechwan went to waste. Now the nation acts
as a unitary organism in meeting its shortages.
EDITORIAL CALLS FOR INTENSIFIED RELIEF EFFORTS -- Tientsin, Ta Kung Pao, 31 May 53
Our party and government have met with some success in leading a fight to
save the lives of our people facing spring famine in certain areas. Farm work
is being pushed and supplies of grain rushed in to save the lives of millions.
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However, to avoid an additional summer famine, we must intensify our efforts
to aid these stricken people. The most pressing problem is to get the available
food supplies within reach of the hungry. Our leaders must initiate plans for
various steps to aid the stricken people. Methods of obtaining capital must be
devised because capital is necessary to purchase and transport foodstuffs to the
stricken areas and to help the suffering people feed their domestic animals.
These must be tax alleviation in the famine areas.
HAST CHINA E70?ANBS PRODUCTION RELIEF ACTIVITIES -- Peiping, Jen-min Jih-pao,
15 Jun 53
Thanks to good leadership, production and relief work are progressing side
by side in the disaster areas of East China. From other parts of China grain
has been shipped in to meet the emergency. Cadres have been sent out to aid the
peasants to save the winter wheat and start new crops for the fall. Transporta-
tion facilities have been mobilized to move in supplies promptly. At Pang-fou,
crews have worked overtime to handle more than 20,000 tons of foodstuffs.
Shantung has done about as well as last year. T'eng FPsien, one of the herd-
hit districts in Shantung produced 70 percent of their usual crop. North Kiangsu
will harvest about 50 percent of their norm.
Relief activities have met the usual difficulties and the cadres have made
mistakes; but, on the whole, relief and production are progressing.
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