PLANS FOR THE DEVELOPEMENT OF RUBBER PLANTATATION IN HAINAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008900200005-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 9, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 1999/09/09 : CIA-RDP82-00457R0089002000
Hong Kong pess reports of July and August in-
dica g t Nat . undreds of deportees from Malaya have been set to work
in Hainan rubber plantations. According to an article of 18 July
the Communists had sent in 10 Soviet rubber experts and according
to one of 1 July, plantings of rubber trees had been made at
W+ench' ang, Tengmai, and Nata, :nd factories set up at Chiachi and
k aik' ou.
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Plans for the Development of Rubber
Plantations in Hainan
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1. According to the estimation of a group of Soviet experts on rubber who
visited Hainan in August, about 10 million rnou of land in Hainan is
suitable for growing rubber des, This land is in the fol.lo .ng hsieri
Yai (109-10, 18-21i.4 Lingshui (109-56, 18-35), panning (110-23, 16-50),
Lohui (110-27, 19-13), Ch' iungtung (110-28, 19-234 bench' ang (110-42,
19-112), Chriungshan (1M.0-21, 20-02), Tingan (110-16, I9-42), Cheng!nai
(109-58,, 19-47)0 Linkao (109-b3, 19-56). Tan (109--16, 19-45).
Ch~ angchiang (108-45, 19-16), and Konen (108-39, 18--54).
the Chinese authorities in '3eiping are planning to vlanl rubber trees in
these hsien and are sending about 20,003 experienced fruit'growers from
Manchuria to Hainan to work on these plantations. They also plan to
e0tablish an administration for rubber affairs with offices at Sanya
and factories at Haik'ou, Chiachi (110-21i, 19--20), and Nata (109.26,
19-30