PRESENT FACILITIES AND PLANNED IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CHINESE TELEPHONE SYSTEM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00926A003400040016-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 14, 2006
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: September 29, 2003
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 25X1 REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY China/Hungary
SUBJECT Pres.en Fac,li, es amp IFlarubedempouments in the
Chinese Telephone System
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DATE
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City
Shanghai
Canton
Swatow
Hangchow
25X1 Contracts with Hungary
1. The Chinese Communist Government has entered into a contract,-With Hungary whereby
25X1 Hungary has agreed to install in the latter part of 1951 a 60,000 line rotary tele
pht4,Pepgg and to construct, starting in 1951, in Tientsin a
25X1 factory for the production of telephone equipment. Materials and equipment for the
? rotary telephone system and for the planned Tientsin telephone
factory are to come from the factories in Budapest formerly owned by International
Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Telemhone Systems
2. There is a modern rotary telephone system, equipment having been supplied by.
International Telephone and Telegraph Company, in Shanghai, Canton, S.watow and
Hangchow. The approximate number of lines in each of these cities is as follows:
DATE DISTR. May 1951
NO. OF PAGES 2
NO. OF ENCLS.
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED. INFORMATION
Number of
80,000
15,000
2,000
3,000
lines
Telephone exchanges in Shanghai include one located in central Shanghai on
Biang,si . Road near 4th Avenue and one located on Fookan Road near Nanking Road.
Telephone exchanges in Canton include one located on, Fungning Road, one in
Tungshan on the Pak Tze Road,. one located at Homan at Hai Long Park. All
large cities in China employ rotary telephone systems.
Manufacturing Plants in Shanghai
3. There is a small plant on Lan Road in the Yang?Shu--Po area of Shanghai formerly
owned by China Electric Co., a subsidiary of International Telephone and Telegraph
Company which produces such equipment as magnetos, small switchboards, and
telephones. The Chung Hwa Wire and Cable in the Yang.Shu?.Po area of Shanghai
manufactures small cables and-some lead covered cables.
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Telecommunications Administration
4. China for purposes of telecommunications administration is divided into six districts,
as follows: Central District with head quartersa tp&Lj i ng, Manchurian District,
South Central Di'strict with headquarters at Hangchow, Northwestern District,
Southeastern District, Shanghai District. Chu Hsueh Pang, is Minister of
Chinese Posts, Telephone and Telegraph with headquarters at Pei1birfig,
his vice-minister, is General Chung Fu Hsiang with headquarters, at Ha.gchow.
General Chung Tu Hsiang was formerly head ofj the Signal Corps of the Chinese
Communist Army.
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