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CHINA
28. Blagoveschensk-Harbin Railway, via Aigun and Mergen, with connection between Mergen and Tsitsihar.
29. Peking-Jehol-Chihfeng Railway, 270 miles. 30. Chinchow-Chihfeng Railway, 180 miles.
31. Kalgan-Dolonor Railway, 150 miles.
32. Dolonor-Chihfeng Railway, 200 miles.
33. Nanking to Pingsiang through Nanchang.
Preliminary survey made in 1914.
Total length, 643 miles. Estimated cost of construction and equipment, £7,608,925,
From Taonanfu to Jehol.
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Changchun to Taonanfu.
Kirin to Kaiyuan via Hailung.
a point on the Taonanfu-Jehol Railway to a seaport.
In Operation
Government Railways
Kilometres Kilometres 6,036.920
...
Operation by construction forces:-
Lung Hai Hupeh-Hunan
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Total Government Railways...
Provincial and Private Railways:-
Kwangtung
...
Kiukiang-Nanchang
Sunning
Swatow-Chaochow-fu
Nanking City
...
...
Chung Hsing Mining Co.... Liu Chiang Coal Mine
Tayeh Mining Co.
**
Ching Hsing Mining Co.
...
...
...
***
**
Kailan Mining Administration Taiyaokou Mines
Tsitsihar City
+
...
Ma Chiapu Narrow Gauge
...
368.300 15.289
383.589
+
***
6,420.509
...225
...136
...171
42
11
...
**
52
12
4
...
30
15
16
**
29
29
5
773.000
7,193.509
...
4
...
•
Total subject to control of the Ministry of Communications...
Concessioned Railways:-
Chinese Eastern
South Manchuria...
Shantung
Yunnan
...
..
Canton-Kowloon (British Section)
...
...
...
...1,722 ...1,107
451
...
465
35
3,780.000
+
10,973.500
Total Kilometres of Railway in China (Miles: 6,818)
HISTORICAL
The year 1900 will ever be memorable in the history of China for the "Boxer" rising, the last and a most determined attempt to break away from foreign influence and to revert to the exclusiveness of twenty centuries. Details of this great social and political upheaval may be found in preceding volumes of this Directory. The object of the rising, which was confined to the North, was the extermination of foreign native Christians and people known to be associated with foreigners. The Legation