HSINNAN ARSENAL, CANTON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008700340007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 8, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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the Shihching Arsenal and the 15 iiotor Car Repair aaorkshop
at oo ;'- J ), Canton, were amalgamated wader the nave of Hainnan ( i"
Arse, LZC- The management of this arsenal is now under the direct control
of the Chinese Couaunist Central. Government.
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2 The .pc: ary head of the arsenal is TAN Chi.' Jung (% ? a. )' tah.o -ims sent,
fire :'( .ipJng and has been responsible fcr the readjustment of staff said
pay,, 12.1 th'a seniors staff, who have been there since the Natiori:list
regi e have been dischargod?i These are C1I51FN Chao (f, , 13w ), Chief of the
aeto I,`atari ,s Store o l.1 the Instruments and Materials Section, and YU
Shen}, .ur4s (~j 14. HU Hsiao-chin (r 4 ! ), H.HAI ,,.~~.,x~r3 ( )s
'';AI1G };ping (.x ) and riU Fu (i )a
3r. Apart . 1ca rcranu?acturing rifles, machine guns, shells and cartridges, the
arsenal repairs guns and arms. It also makes spare parts for machinery,
re-c,asi.s eoppor and iron parts, overhauls all types of vehicles, and designs
and r if a vehicle bodies,
It i,- two one-half ton foundries, one two ton iron Iourady, and
one `3 eyes ?etaeltixag furnace, which is capable of re-casting articles of
appr-x.:ima.4 o]y one ton in :.eight.
o The -,rE enal. is also eqE -,ippod with two sets of machinery for producing
oxygen. 'Bach 'valve a (SAI ) can produce 12 bottles of ox rgen, The
instal;tion of machinery for reconditioning used rubber tires has been
compJete=d and a total of 300 re-conditioned sets c be made monthly.
tau In orV:er to be s '. in the supply of spare parts, the arsenal
has s uc r..e~ :deci in making pi..storas. In motor car :e?e pa.ir it
is caTA,ole of handling an-,r kind of damage, including paint-spraying. 50X1-HUM
the arsenal receivod a consi. maent of machinery from
Pa .si-.to--,fu (Cc ,'k ), and two Chinese mechanical en i.n~,ers, :?thi
Juzig f u( and T Ilan--vu i`. mriqi R
inst ili..a,t1 on After
this th orsen -- be capable of` ng conies of new foreign weapons 50X1-HUM
o e . ,ups ~ 6 Soviet experts, a>a--erh-fu-ko-fu (0: J, A4 . ) and 50X1-HUM
CLASSIFICATION r "/C `T OL - U.S. 0F7ICIAIS 3? LY
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/04/21: CIA-RDP82-00457R008700340007-9
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/04/21: CIA-RDP82-00457R008700340007-9
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/04/21: CIA-RDP82-00457R008700340007-9