ECONOMIC INFORMATION: NEW TANGKU HARBOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000200450003-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 7, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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6. Contracting; _of Future Construction and Tabor
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(a) In concurrence ::ith a state .eht made by the -hinese authorities,
rooorts that all large future operations will be subcontracted and tha the
ureau i6se if will do practically no actual construction work.
:b) Since the Chinese l equestec it, construct ion work will be contracted to
Aiuerican fir,= only., and no Chincso contractor: will be used..
(c} Chinese laborers will. be used but technicians other than those already
er,zplo y od `b: the :ur eau (the majority of which Pro A orican--trained) will be
AAcuericans. h very fir; Japanese technicians have been retained.
(c?) Jo shorta ;e of laborers is anticipated.
7. rinanc .al >? ck2round
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25X1A6a Co; .lent: as unable to furnish data on the a:aount of money-
already expended on the project; heeverj an article in the Tientsin :'inuo
Jih, Pao, dated 31 August, 1946, stated that the sum of C;-." 1,700,,000 ,0070 had
been extended to the ""ew Harbor construction r ureau to offset partially the
25X1X6 construction oosts of the new harbor. The money nceciod to coiplcto the trarhor 25X1X6
is estimated by- Ito be at least t'.S. 25,0:"0,000. uirthcr believes
that eventually this :goner will probably be borrowed fi"ra-n .I;.iport snort Sank
of hiaohin;ton, D.C.)
(~ Comments In regard to the above M.rees, a previous T iontsin report
quoting' the lientsi.n In luo Jih Pao of 12 vctoher states that Jr. ISIN0 Ch'i-hua.,
Director o the Tangku Now Harbor Construction bureau, volunteered the informa-
tion that Ci4C 1,500,000,000 of a total sum of CUIC 6,000,000j000 had been received
from the ";'ini.stry o' 3,n-z-a unications, CNC 3,000,000,000 will be received in
1'sovembcr j and the ren i nder, CC 1,500,030,000, in i Q C(3ITI 5er }
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