PRODUCTION PLAN RESULTS OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST MINISTRY OF LIGHT INDUSTRY FOR THE FIRST QUARTER, 1953

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• Publication Date: November 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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SECURITY INFORMATION
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 709 and 794, of the U.S. Code, SS
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
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COUNTRY China
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DATE OF INFO.
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REPORT
Production Plan Results of the Chinese DATE DISTR.
Communist Ministry of Light Industry for
the First Quarter, 1953 NO. OF PAGES
17 November 1953
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The following is from a report submitted by the Ministry of Light Industry to
the Committee of Finance and Economics of the Chinese Communist Government
Administration Council in May 1953 on the results of the Ministry's production
plan for state-operated light industries during the first quarter of 1953:
a.
Production targets in 15 of the 36 principal products of the industries
under the Chinese Communist Ministry of Light Industry were achieved or
surpassed during the first quarter of 1953 in the following percentages:
Product
Cigarette paper
Paper for cement bags
Paper
Chemical woodpulp
Refined salt
Paludrine
Ephedrine
Penicillin
Glucose
Sugar
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Production
108 percent
104 percent
100 percent
107 percent
109 percent
124 percent
127 percent
104 percent
107 percent
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Product Production
Edible oil 103 percent
Canned food 107 percent
Table balance 122 percent
Stand scale 111 percent
Balance 160 percent
b. Production targets in 21 of the 36 principal products that were not met
were fulfilled in the following percentages:
Product Production
Newsprint 98 percent
Class C printing paper 78 percent
Wrapping paper 99 percent
Paper board 91 percent
Paper pulp 99 percent
Reed pulp 96 percent
Motorcar tires 93 percent
Motorcar inner tubes 99 percent
Rubber tubes 75 percent
Flat rubber belts 92 percent
V-belts (triangular belts) 94 percent
Handcart inner tubes 93 percent
Handcart tires 84 percent
Rubber shoes 62 percent
Crude salt 36 percent
Re-baked tobacco leaves 99 percent
Sulfathiazole 83 percent
Sulfaguanidine 35 percent
Oil cakes 92 percent
Heavy leather 71 percent
Light leather 98 percent
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c. The materials in which producttn fulfilled or overfulfilled the targets each
month during the first quarter of 1953 were chemical woodpulp, glucose,
paludrine, and sugar.
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-.The materials in which production failed to fulfill targets each month
were Class C printing paper, handcart tires, flat rubber belts, rubber
tubes, rubber shoes, crude salt, and heavy leather.
The products in which production was far from attaining targets, that is,
below 70 percent of the quota, were rubber shoes, crude salt, and sulfa-
guanidine.
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d. A comparison of the production records of the various divisions of the
Ministry of Light Industry showed the following:
(1) The Paper Manufacturing Industry Division fulfilled productibn targets ,
for four of its ten principal products and failed to fulfill targets for
six products.
(2) The Light Industry Division fulfilled production targets for six of
its nine principal products and failed to fulfill targets for three
products.
(3)
(4)
(5)
The: Rubber Industry Division failed to fulfill any of the targets
of its eight principal products.
The Medicine Industry Division fulfilled production targets for four
of its six principals products and failed to fulfill targets for two
products.
The Tobacco and Wine Industry Division failed to fulfill the target
for its only principal products. Cigarettes and wine were not included
in the report because data for these two products were incomplete in
May 1953.
(6) The Salt Administration Division fulfilled the target for one of its
two principal products and failed for the other.
e. Regional comparisons placed the Central and South China Area firstrthe
North China Area, second' and the Northeast and East China Areas, last.
f. Classification by industry showed that the record of the sugar industry was
the best and the record of the rubber industry was the 'worst.
g. The various administrative divisions adopted different measures for the
improvement of the quality of products. For example, the factories in
Northeast China Area called for conferences for improving quality and
for conducting technical inspections under the direction of Soviet experts.
Generally, the quality of products improved. The results of quality im-
provement, however, were not uniform. For example, the medicine industry,
incidents involving the quality problem still occurred constantly. The
1Co Pa (4430/4099) Pharmaceuticals Factory of Shanghai changed the pre-
scription of a medicine on its own authority by reducing the preservative,
and the medicine became more susceptible to deterioration. This caused
the State to suffer a loss of JMP 7,500,000,000.
h. Most of the enterprises failed to accomplish the original targets for the
cost of products. For example, the factories under the Paper Manufacturing
Industry Division exceeded their cost by a total of JMP 6,500,000,000 in the
first quarter. Individual factories of the Rubber Industry Division ex-
ceeded their costs although the division's total costs for the first quarter
were JMP 37,000,000,000 lower than the quota. The factories in the North.
east China Area had the greateet losses since operations were suspended
because of the poor quality of their products. Because of the stockpiling
of products, interest alone on credit loans for the first quarter amounted to
JKP 4,000,000,000,
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1. The main reasons for failure in production projects were the lack of an
effective control system and the inability of leading cadres, staff members,
and workers to comprehend what accomplishing the whole plan would mean.
In the past, quantity was given emphasis rather than quality. Since the
call for improvement of quality, a general drop had occurred in the quantity
of all production fdr the sake of fulfilling the demand for improvement of
quality.
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Incidents that hindered the normal process of production occurred regularly.
For example, in the Northeast Number 7 Rubber Factory, the sulphurating
machines for making handcart tires had to undergo two or three checkups
daily. In the Hsuanhua (N 40-37, E 115-01) Paper Factory, trouble in the
furnace caused the machines to stop operations for an extra 12 hours. On
11 March 1953 a fire broke out in the sulfaguanidine workshop of the North-
east Pharmaceutical Factory and hindered production. A lack of planning
in the supply of raw materials also resulted in work stoppages. For
example, the Northeast Pharmaceuticals Factory stopped work in the sulfa-
guanidine workshop because a supply of acetaldehyde did not arrive on time.
The same trouble caused the Peiping Paper Factory to stop work for 114 hours.
The Northeast Number 6 and Number 7 Rubber factories stopped work because of
a shortage of ultramarine (ch'un ch'ing, 5028/7230). The factories were unable
to buy it anywhere and could obtain no substitute.
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in April 1953 the Committee of
Finance and Economics, Chinese Communist Government Administrative Committee,
instructed the Ministry of Light Industry to take measures to. improve the
quality of products manufactured under its direction and to reduce production
costs.
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