LUNGCHINGTSUN
村井龍
Lung-ching-tsun
Lungchingtsun (Dragon Well Village), has a population of about 15,000 inhabitants, .composed of about 11,000 Koreans, 3,000 Chinese, and 1,000 Japanese. Situated in a fertile plain, its main exports are: beans, millet and timber. There are promising mining possibilities (coal, copper, silver, and gold) waiting development. The trade- by light railway to Kainei-is with Korea and Japan. The principal imports are cotton piece goods, sugar, Japanese sundries, paper, kerosene oil, metals, fishery
Telephone and telegraph line, in addition to the Chinese telegraph and tele- phone lines, connect Lungchingtsun with the neighbouring marts of Yenki, Towtaokow and Hunchun. A handsome new building for the Bank of Chosen was completed in 1923, and a particularly fine new Japanese Consulate
in 1925.
BANK OF CHOSEN
S. Shiozawa
'T. Itoh
JAPANESE CONSULATE
Consul General K. Nagai
DIRECTORY
Consuls-I. Shoji and S. Takiyama Chancellors G. Hamada, M. Kishi, K. Komori, S. Kato, D. Onoki and K. Yugue
Police Supt. C. Akutagawa (actg.)
HUNCHUN
春琿
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Hunchun is derived from Manchu, meaning frontier, and is situated in lat. 24 deg.. 25 min. 5 sec. N., long. 130 deg. 22 min. 10 sec. E. of Greenwich, on the right bank of the Hung Ch'i Ho, some 35 li from the Manchukuo-Russian frontier and about 90 li distant from Novokiewsk. In 1714 adetachment of soldiers came here from Ninguta, and this may be regarded as the beginning of Hunchun, which was to be opened to trade, by treaty i with Japan (Manchurian Convention), in 1905, but the Customs staff did not arrive before December, 1909. Towards the end of 1921 an electric light plant was installed in the town by a Chinese concern. The surrounding districts are fairly fertile, and the mining possibilities (coal, gold, and copper) may, when taken in hand, prove of considerable
value.
The town (earthen walled) has a population of 8,894 Manchu in addition to whom are 5,277 (August 1935) Japanese and Koreans. The main exports are beans, millet and timber; and the main imports: flour, wheat, cotton piece goods, kerosene oil,! fishery products, spirits of wine, sugar, and matches. (Value of Trade in 1934 $1,769,771:00) Rapid progress is being made in the modernisation of the town of Hunchun.
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