CHINESE COMMUNIST RAILWAY INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010800070010-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2001
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 7, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

SUBJECT. Cbinese Cormunist Faily,-ay Information
COUNTRY China
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In 7,20C engineering personnel who ha(? worked on the Lai sin-
Chennankuan railroad wEre transferred to Cht inhsi en ?103-.37, 2"-S8) and Nanning
to construct a line from Lungrienchiang 0
-08- 21== to a:s nhsn (108-12.,
22-35). The line will be built by way of Hsiaoturagh ln.1 c 3' 3--3 i 22-al1), V angpao
(108--15, 22-28), and Ta.t ang (109 -21, 22-12), to lint: up the :Light railway line
at Tits&unhsu for Nanning. Its total length will be, '2'58 li. Seven medium-
sized bridges and 87 sn.alier bridfre s along the line rill be r?ebuilt. The 1i 2X1 A
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rails to be used in construction of the line were left beind by the
Japanese army when it invaded Nanning in 1940. Chinese Communist authorities
have set the middle of April 1952 as the deadline for eonr;7letion of the project.
about one-half of the railway employees on the Canton-Kowloon
Railroad were transferred to the Hengyang and Liuchou railway offices to handle
the increased volume of shipments to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
00 railway employees graduated from the third class of the
Viao Pu (" iii ) Railway Personnel Training Center, of the Hengyang Railway
Administration. Four hundred forty of these graduates were assigned to jobs
on the Laipine-Chennankuan Railroad by LET: Tieh-ming deputy director
of the Hengyang Railway Administration.
7 Soviet technicians reported that temporary bridges on the Hunan-
were not strong enough to carry heavy traffic, and they advised
T'ENG Taiyuan, Minister of Railways, to approve th construction of heavy bridges
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accompanied by ov a ec n.ic an Chiu kaowmei (fig +E , -)9 arrived at Hen an
where tl r were entertained at the Railway Guest Huse byLIt1 Chuan~ashu
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bridges.
8, he Ministry of Railways allotted 20 new soviet-made locomotives
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to the Wuhan Railway Office;, 3 to the Canton Railway Office, and 10 to the
Liuchou Railway Office. These locomotives, which are one,-third more powerful
than any of the 60 locomotives under the Hengyang Railway Administration, will
be used for military purposes.
9. He ause of improved order and control along railways in South China, beginning on
public security troops will no longer accompany trains on regular
runs An engineer, twr- ass.stant engineers, two conductors, two brakemen, one
baggage officer, and eight to ten stewardesses, will. be assigned to each train.
10. a branch railroad line between Chihfang (11J1-18, 30--23), Shihtung
and Chink'ou (114.4)7, 3O 20) was opened to traffic. The line is double
tracked and passes through a tunnell, between Shih Tung and Chink'ou. Supplies
moving down the Yangtze River for transshipment on the Canton-Hank c Railway at
Wuch' ang (114-17, 30-32) can now be unloaded at Chink' ou w:rharfs Residents near
Chink'ou wharf have been moved to other areas. Fourteen large and 30 small ware-
houses have been built in Chink'ou, and anti-aircraft gun3 and radar have been
installed in the area.
11. he Ministry of Railways set up a training camp for railway
Pec n c 1ns n c erks at Oh'anghsintien (l16m12, 39-49), CHOU Shu=t'ung ( A
k )J) is the director of This caanp, which has three Soviet instructors and 220
trainees. There is a branch of this training camp at Fengt'ai (116=17, 3951),
headed by BUANO An-shih It has three Soviet advisers and 310 trainees.
All railway technicians and clerks will eventually receive training at these camps.
The present course ends in the middle of February.
12. T?ENG Taiyuan, ordered all district governments in North China
to send a total of 8,000 militiamen to Chinghai (116-55, 18-56) and Tehsien (116-17,
37427) for training by 11 January. After a brief training, period,, these troops
will be used to protect the railways of North China o
13. the Chinese Communists completed the double-tracking of the
railroad between Shanhaikuan (119-44, 41-00) and Mukden.
25XIAXlA 1. Comment. 185 miles of track had been laid on
this railroad. The remadining 133 miles are to be completed by 1 June 1952.
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cons rue ...on of railroad bridges in Nwangsi.
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Comment. According to information available to es the
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and armored cars are being used to safeguard railways in South China.