VEGETABLE OIL PRODUDCTION IN CHINA

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• Publication Date: May 17, 1951
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The China Oil and Fat Company is one of the 12 mononoliTed enterPrises of the
Chinese lo,,ernment and is under the direct control of the Trade Ministry. It
,roverns the entire oil and fat industry and controls the nurchase of raw materials,
1u-ices, production of oil, sales and exnort and barter. It also exnorts to the
USSR and Other countries to. obtain foreion exchange.
"2roduction Plan In January 1950, the Trade Vinistry drew up the 1950 vegetable
oil Production estimatfl, which -as again no.ssed a conference of the oil r,nd fat
5,ndustry held in rpy 1050. These figures, renresenting the 1050 estimate of five
lrincinal kinds of edible oil ray materials and. the arount of oil extracted, are
given below:
Paw raterials
Total Pro-
duction
r':eserved Direct Con-
for .larming sumntion
-xnorted raterial Oil
for Oil Producd
7aterio1s extrac-
tion
:-e seed.
Sesame
Groundnut
Soybean
Cottonseed
3,50/:,500
529,000
2,466,500
9,596,500
1,590,000
,ell units
70,000
10,580
246,650
039,650
31P,000
Total 17,696,500 1,594,980
in metric tnns
87,975
1,L25,000
2,850,000
4,000 3,) 50, 10
7,000 4?3, q'3
/05,600 689,250
958,500 1,748,350
1.172,000
/1,362,875 975,100 l0,3,53r
1.n29,123
-169,1,18
248,110
. 427,7?;-cl
114,L80
1,9138,2
rt of the large oil factories equinned pith modern
machinery are at Dairen, Harbin, Ssuningchleh* in r-nchuria; Shon-hai, Tsingtao in
vast China; '71entsin in rforth China; and-ijucheng and Han17ow in entral China. In
the Southwest and Northwest Administrative 'ions, there are no factories equioned
-with machines of comnarable
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20 sets
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2.204 sets
5,903 sets
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196 sets
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91 sets
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round tyPe hydraulic press
haud-operated spiral nress
small tyne Hung Che
small tyne Hung Che
large tyne Hung Ch 'e
medium tyne Hung Ch 'e
small tyIe Hung Chive
square tyne hydraulic press
round tyne hydraulic nress
hand-onerated soiral nress
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154 sets
198 sets
185 sets
2,970 sets
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of lnrge trne 7ung Ch'e
of medium tyne Hung Chle
of weoll tyne Hung Ch 'e
of snare tyne hydraulic nress
of round_ trne hydraulic Press
of hand-onerated snirnl nress
corditions of ?ro Potion. Because of the shortage of raw eaterials, nroduction
falls well below the 1950 estimate.
a. The ceracity of the rachine-onerated oil factories in 7ast China is 205,000
metric tnns. of oil cals. lased on the caleulation of nurchose of raw
-aterials, nroduction of the resion in 10 is esti-ted at asnroximately
75,000 n-tric tons of oil and 335,000 re,tric tons of oil cnke. Shanghai,
the center of the nress-oil industry, has a Troductive canneity of over
90 _ercent for "ast China. From January to Vay, holiever, actnal oil Pro-
duction was 3,855.282 metric tons end cake oroduction erns 15,634,875 metric
tons.
b. Peiping and Tientsin are also centers for the press-oil industry. Tientsin's
ca-pncity for five ronths is 15,943 metric tons, although its nroeuction from
January to ray le,s only 2,100,15 metric tons of oil aul 4,856.75 rntric tons of
oil cake. Peining's canncity for five months is 5,987 metric tons; but from
Janunry to ray. it oroduced only 721 metric tons of oil and 3,031 metric tons of
oil cake.
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c. Dairen is the mchine-ooerated oil factory center in 7ortheast China,
Anart from the state-owned Yweng Yuan () ril Factory, there are
two main factories: the Ta Tung ( )e Ar ) Oil Proouction Factory and
the Hsien Ho Oil Production FactorY, cOlfch comnrise four "uselan oil '
factories set up under the guidance of the Suntly and Crain Trading
Comnany of the Foreign Trade Deoartrent of the Uole, and over 40 eeeveee
oil factories. The first factory of the Soviet Oil 2actory can nroduct
78 r=tric tons of groundnut oil in one 24-hour neriod, while its atteched
Oil Refinery Factory can nroduce in one night 30 eetric tons of refined
oil. The factory itself is well equinned, but suffers from lacl- of eaw
materials. The second_ factory of the Soviet 011 Factory oossesses 16 sets
of cornound melting (Yung Chi m ) oil extracting rachines. Its
calaety, on a 2h-hour basis. Is 66 retric tons of soybeen oil from a
supply of 400 metric tons. Thie means a require-ent of about 30,o00
metric tons ner quarter. The 1.950 n1Pn llove for a sunnly of 96,000
metric tons. lurine the first euerter 26,000 r=tric tons of soybeans had
been nrocessed. A third factory is still under construction. The fourth
factory makes so-ns, congeeIed oil, oeygon and glycerine. The nlanned nro-
deletion of the state-oened Tweng Yuan cil 2ectory is 8,500 retric tons of
soybean oil from n leriod of 10 months In every year, and. 76.000 eetric tons
of bean cake with n suonly of 81,000 retric tons of ooybeans. Actually only
97 enrcent of this total is available. The continuous-tyne oil nress ran
nroduce a yearly sunnly of 7,900 retric tens of groundnut oil, requirine a
supply of 20.700 retric tnno of -rounnuts. At nresent, these are in short
sunnly and none have arrived recently. The yearly canecity of the nerilla
ocymoides nresses is 9,730 retric tons of nerilla ocy-olies oil. and 15,130
retric tons of nerilla ocyroides oil and 15.130 metric tons of oerilla
ocymoides cake with a requirement of 27.020 metric tons of raw mater1al.,
However, work has been susnended because of short sunnlies,
Conditiomesefelala.
a. In 1949, the sale 6i' edible oil in Shanghai averaged 50,000 piculs (about
2,500 metric -tens). After January 1950, the sales decreased graduaily In
the month of May sales were down to one-third of normal. 7"ven the various
bean cakes could not be exported. Because of decreased shinning facilities
there is little exeort of bean cake at oresent. A large mart of the oils
can be disposed of locally only, while the bean cake is sold orincinally
in the farming areas in Chekiang. Some coke also goes to Kwangtung,
b. The production of oils and cake in "ast China, inclu'ing that from orimitive
methods, and nuelic and orieate oil factories. is 310,000 tons of various
edible oils and 1,150.000 tons of cone. Based on a nonulotion of 11..01).000
in '7est China, each nersot gets only one share of about five catties of
edible oil yearly. Cake is used for molAng fertilieer. On the baeis of 30
catties of cake for one mon, there Is only enough to fertiliee 77,000,000 reu
of rice fields. Because of the low buying mower, the ienression Is given
that there is eeeroroduction, but this ie not the case.
c. In nentral loath China yearly nroduction of various hinds of edible oil from
oil-extracting nress factories is 78,000,096 metric tons. Proluction ()I- canes
is estimated at 53.519 metric tons. There has been stockniling. hos-ever. The
? erivately eened Kai ring ) Oil Yactory end the state-ooned ann rame
( 4 ) Oil Factory at !lucheng and Hankow both have a stec,-eile of 20,00e
to 50,000 nieces of bean cake (1?50 June Relort). The Ronan nrovincialny
owned oil factory also has a stocimile of cotton cake.
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d. Oil nress factories in 7ortheast China, eith fevoreble conditions es well
as suffieent labor reserves, are unable to exeort in greater quantities.
3ale is internal only. Precise statistic s for the l'irst half of 1050 for
all China are not yet available. Holiever. at the first Plenery conference
of the oil and fat industry, the figures of nroduction and ,ale for the
second half of 1050 (July-December) are estleated, excluding the Northeast
China reeion, at a total of 64,000 metric tons of edible oil from the five
nrincinal kinds of raw material, narely, yellov bean, neanut, cottonseed,
sesare, raneseed. Production of cake vas 226.350 metric tons. The China
Oil and Fat Comnany is resnonsible for the nurchnse of edible oil
(24.795 tons), vhile the amount sold by the various nubile and -private
oil factories is 39,205 metric tons of oil and 926.350 metric tons of cake.
The oil bouaht by the China Oil sni Fat Corr-any in for externel mer'rets, the
remainder is to be consumed by the five big cities, Shanehal, ienta1n, Peining,
'Ian!eow and Canton. The stendard amount of sale is 25 .rcent of the total
amount of censumntion of these five cities. The amount of s-,le by the
factories the-selves includes the amount of internal and external sales,
vhile the sale of cake includes the nossible amount to be purchased by the
China Oil and Fat Comnagy for external marl-et.
?rices. In view of the poor market for both oil and calee, 'rices have dronned
graduelly. According to the stetietics of the Shenghel Oil end Fat industry .
Association, the ratio of oil's selline "rice end nroduction nrice in Jrnnary
1950 :as 115 eercent and in February. 130 ,reent. Occasionally, raw material
)rices exceed those of nroduction. For exeenie, the 'rice of nennuts wes J!"13
220,000 per nicul on 17 November 1050 in Shanghai. After oil has been Produced,
the price received is MI 167,500 (35 catties of oil at 4,000 dollars ner catty;
55 catties of ceke at 500 dollars Dor catty).
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Co-nent. Th ie is nrobabler the Ssuninech4.eh at 124-22, 43-11.
C mment. As received in Chinese.
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