CHINA
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Statement of the approximate balances between Receipts and Expenses (including interest and all other charges) of Chinese Government Railways for 1915:-
Line
Peking-Mukden .
Peking-Hankow
Peking-Kalgan
Receipts $14,768,000.00
16,560,000.00
Balance
Expenses
Profit
7,735,000.00
7,033,000.00
10,700,000.00 5,860,000.00
Loss
Kalgan-Suiyuan
Tientsin-Pukow
Ching-Tai
Taokow-Chinghwa
Shanghai-Nanking
Shanghai Hanchow-Ningpo
Canton Kowloon
Kirin-Changchun Chuchow-Pingsiang Canton Samsui Kaifeng-Honan
2,721,500.00
880,940.00
2,052,700.00
668,800.00
999,806.20
118,866.20
2,116, 49.71
8,298,000.00
*
11,051,000.00
2,753,000.00
633,000.00 3,436,800.00
2,021,336.00 882,000.00
95,213.71
249,000,00
3,928,600.00
491,800.00
2,070,000.00
2,3 1,000 00
301,000.00
874,000.00
1,739,582.39
865,582.39
970,912.00
1,447,999.00
477,087.00
690,200.00
764,400.00
74,200.00
851,568.00
579,067.00 272,501.00
1,154,600.00
1,442,700.00
288.100.00
Changchow-Amoy
....
..
41,080.00
202,000.00
160,920.00
Total......$56,067,149.71
47,917,190.5 13,929,514.71
5,779,555.59
Net profit
$8,149,959.11
Cost
Name of Road
Total Cost
1.—Peking-Hankow.
2.—Peking-Mukden
3.-Tientsin-Pukow
4.-Shanghai-Narking
...
...
5.-Shanghai-Hangchow Ningpo...
6. Peking-Kalgan 7.-Kaigan-Suiyuan *.-Ching-Tai 9.-Taokow-Chinghwa 10.- Kaifeng-Honan 11. Kirin-Changchun 12.--Chuchow-Pingsiang 13.-Canton-Kowloon 14. Canton-Samsui
$102,5 9,796.45 $126,757.82
Cost per Mile
58,217,515.39
! 6,146.31
94,237,279.06
137,020.64
30,436,154.51
149,747.74
15,620,250.40
95,123.57
12,940,314.25
88,914.07
9,553,259.02
80,448.47
23,092,146.90
152,966.76
7,281,141.02
76,862.25
13,355,784.44
116,184.28
6,193,594.42
78,083.26
4,743,044.68
79,050.59
16,708,405.55
187,734.74
3,262,490.80
107,319.10
15.-Changchow-Amoy
Total......$398,221,176.89
118,742.98
The following list of railways, open and under construction, shows the progress which has been made in little more than ten years in improving communications in China:- 1. Chinese Eastern Railway (Tung Ching), 5-foot gauge. Kuancliengtzu to Harbin and thence east and west to the Russian frontier, 1,077 niiles. Under Russian control. 2. Tsitsihar Light Railway (Ang-ang-chi), metre gauge. Connecting Tsitsihar with the Chinese Eastern Railway at Ang-ang-chi, 17 miles. Opened August, 1909. Constructed by a British engineer.
3. South Manchurian Railway. Under Japanese control. Main line: Dairen (Dalny) to Kuanchengtzú (11⁄2 miles beyond Changchun), 439 miles; double line. Branches: (1) Choushuitzu to Port Arthur, 31 miles. (2) Tashihkiao to Yinkow (Newchwang), 17 niles, inclusive of the new section from Niuchiatun to Yingkow, which was opened in November, 1909. (3) Yentai to Taikang, 10 miles. (4) Suchiatun to Fushun, 343 miles, to the coal mines. (5) Mukden to Antung, 2 feet 6 inches gauge, 187 miles.
4. Imperial Railways of North China. The earliest railway system in China, British engineers, Chinese and British capital. Main line: Peking to Mukden (Ching- Feng), 523 miles. The last section, Hsinmintun to Mukden, was purchased from the Japanese in 1907. Branches: (1) Peking to Tungchow, 14 miles. (2) Peking to Lukow- kiao, 4 miles, connecting with the Peking-Hankow Railway. (3) Kowpangtze to Yingkow (Newchwang), 57 miles. (4) Tientsin to Hsiku. 3 miles. A branch from Tangho to Chinwangtao, 6 miles, belongs to and is controlled by the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company (British).