ECONOMIC INFORMATION: HSIAOFENGMAN POWER PLANT, MANCHURIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001600890012-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 13, 2001
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: July 19, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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. i#1 and ti generators were left at the plant.
2. Three repair units have been sent out from Hsiaofengman to restore power
transmission lines.. Tic first unit, under the direction of CHOU Yu-lin
( v. --), is restoring the lines between Hsiaofengraan and Harbin;
the second unit, between Hsiaofengman and Huapichang (126-13,43-59); the
third unit, between Hsintofeng man and Tunghua.
3. On 25 r-pril 1948.a mee;.Ing of 21 new employees of the plant was held in the
#1 and #4 generator rooms. The meeting was addressed by a Japanese engineer,
who is in charge of the technical operation of the plant. The engineer gave
a brief history of the plant, stating that formerly there had been eight
water power generators of German and American design at the plant. Five of
the eight generators had been completely installed by august 1945. Each
generator was capable of furnishing 70,000 kilowatts,, The five
generators in operation in august 1945 were sufficient to supply the power
needs of Kirin, Uhongchun, Harbin and the industrial areas of South )anchuria.
The #2 and #3 generators were of German design. In,the winter of 1945-46
the #2, ,13 and r#5 generators were removed by the Soviets, and only the
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1. Nationalist troops dam./;ed the ,' `1 and .i4 generators of the Hsiaofengman
Power Plant before their withdrawal from Kirin. Chinese Communist officials
at the plant have been ordered to give highest priority to the repair of the
two generators. The damage is not regarded as serious. At the present time
the power needs of the Kirin and Tunghua (125-57,4141) areas are being met
with power sup-lied from the Suiho (124-58,40-28) Power Plant on the Korean
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25X1 A Comment? the Chinese Nationalists were refused
by the Soviet authorities when they requefted that power be furnished to
J anchuria from the suiho Power Plant. indicated that25X1 A
part of the electricity furnished to South Korea may have come from the
Suiho Dam.)
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