EXPANSION OF CHUCHOU ARSENAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100300011-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: August 24, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT mansion of Chuchou Arsenal
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In January the Ordnance Administration of the Central and South China Area
Coxmand begen to expand the Chuchou (3.1.3-06, 27..53) Arsenal by constructing
factory buildings and reconstructing machinery left behind by the Nationalists.
The machine tools for making machine-guns have been brought from the
Soviet Union.
2. This arsenal has become one of the best in the Central and South China area.
It employs 1,570 workers in three shifts of eight hours each. The wage
scale of workers has been increased to eight salary pointsl per person daily;
consequently, the workers P morale is high
3. This arsenal produces light and heavy machine-gins, rifles, hand granades,,
and rifle and machine-?gun munitV on,, Current production figures :ire
ail but the output in March 1951 waa 385 times that of January 1951.
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1C Coment? Salary points are traits used by the Chinese Uom uniste
to compute vorkera' des. Bach salary oint includes 0.8 c.r;;ties of
medium-grade rice, 0.2 feet of White --loth,, 0.05 cattiea of edible oily,
0.02 cattier of salt,, and 2' 5 cattiea of fire woodo The me tary value
of each salary point is announced by local authorities on the 5th, 10th,
20th,' 25th, and 30th day of each month, according to the current retail
prices of those coz odities as used by the government tredi.ng companies,,
on 16 May 1951 each salary point had a monetary value of JL t' 2,800,, '
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