1. INDUSTRIAL SHORTAGES IN COMMUNIST CHINA 2. SCRAP COLLECTION, HUNAN

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Release Date: April 23, 2003
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• Publication Date: July 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT I. Industrial Shortage. in
Communist China
2. Scrap Collection, Hunan
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United Stater, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the IT.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person 1s prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form 1e prohibited.
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DATE DISTR.
3 July 1953
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
I. In late March 1953 the Chinese Communists were procuring large quantities
of steel band saws without teeth. The steel was to be used in spring steel
sheets (sic) or coils.
2. When Hua Hsing (5i.78/5281) Factory, Canton, applied to the Bureau of Industry
and Commercel and the Supply Company2 for industrial raw materials, they were
told that industrial supplies would last only until April and after that no
industrial supplies were expected from outside of China.
3. In mid-November 1952 Chinese Communist authorities in Hunan ordered the local
hsien governments to begin a campaign for the collection of scrap iron and
copper. Such items as rusty steel trunks, old brass keys and locks, and
small nails used in window frames and doors were to be collected. The scrap
metal collected south of Ch'angsha (N 28-12, E 112-59) was to be stored at
the north railway station in Ch'angsha for later shipment to Wuch'ang
(N 30-32, E 114-17). The scrap metal collected north of Ch'angsha was to
be stored at Linch'ih (5259/3069) Station. By December the ten hsien and
cities along the railway from Canton to Hankow had been thoroughly searched
fob scrap metal. During December more than 1,000 tons of scrap iron said
copper had been shipped from Ch'angsha, and by the end of the month about
300 tons had been stored at the north station in Ch'angsha.
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1. Comment. Although 0 does not specify which administrative 25X1
level of the Bureau is meant here, it is probably the municipal. The 21
March 1953 issue of the Ta Kung Pao, Hong Kong Press, 21-22 March reported
a recent conference called by the Bureau of Industry and Commerce in Canton
to discuss plans for helping to promote private industries in Canton.
2. Comment. Probably the appropriate state-operated trade coop-
erative for Canton.
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