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LANCHOW-BOOM TOWN OF CHINA'S FAR WEST

L

ANCHOW is ald under control Once the

try

thel mark

only the WIN hustle And new

bridge's crieved the river in its buildings. Store

caire length. Now at Lanchow Ony dumps, new railway lore

fenir. There yards and factories engulf carries motor traffic, one

towards rudiway new still the The old walled city.

Sirkiaga, one the new railway baking in the summer SUA

The fourth to Inny Mongolia, Kanssa bridge in its hollow in the

Withi built in 1909 by hilin.

American enginoers. But roy the Chizare proudly, there now

we built ourselves.

Prosperity

CHILDREN จบ stand

un'A

stant the big American-type Jocomolives that come puffing

By RUSSELL SPURR

way up the old caravan route, Other deposits have been found

the JITOSS

nearby Chinghui border. There

guarded rumours of new coulfelds, fron und tranfum.

arc

entirely Russian equipped, and still under construction,

men

its

had two colleges, for teaching River The hills prevent lateral anet veterinary training, now expansion, so it is in the cust bas an additional medical and west that the suburbs aro college and ม ninorities growing apace The costern institute.

Young

and suburb is

mainly bureaucratie. women of the 14 non-Chinese A new railway station has been I drove the 10 miles out of races of this area, among them built to funnel off the more im- Lanchow to look over the new Tibetans, Uzbeks and Mongols, portent passengers refluery. It

The scale is the come there for education—and is in

avenues, foundation stage work won't indoctrination.

andiose, even

the pompous;

The railway that now knifes

storage Lanks of ing through the major construc- already

Iow eight-storey Through the Lanchow suburbs

Anshan steel are growing out tion projects. There are now hotel dominates the still un- heads along the camel trail to of the pebbly ground.

Imported labourers in paved The 50,000

drive that la Sinklang. Already it has réuch-

first workers tenements and Lanchow, a a third of them from beginning to be lined with grey ed Yumen. By the beginning of administrative buildings have Shanghai. That is in line with brick Institutes and offices, 1958 trains will be running to been Buished. Remnants of the scheme to reduce Shanghal's Urumchi. Connection with the the Great Wall fringe the site, population and economic im-

be completed until 1958-bu! Immigrant workers are rush buildings Bre utilitarian

New people throng its

The bas dusty streets, talking alien dialects of Shanghai, Shantung and Honan. They pour in daily off the west. trains festooned bound with string-bound suitcases from Ear, China. The fascina MARX AMONG THE NOMADS and rolls of bedding-to join them hasn't yet worn off. The the crusading campaign to track, which once stopped 300 kilometres short of Landhow, build Lanchow intu the

only pushes through the greatest city of Northwest mountadu porges as recently as China,

1953. The trains immediately brought prosperity. expansion and ambitious plans.

was

known

as the

and

Russell Spurr returned to Hongkong yesterday from a six-week visit to Communist China his third in two years.

This ime he did not stick to the towns, but travelled far and we over immense distances to observe the great changes that have taken place. He spent some days in Sinkiang, the far Western province bordering Soviet Russia, where few Westerners are permitted to go.

An

In

exclusive series beginning tomorrow in the China Mail, Russell Spurt will left you what he saw in this land of riches, contrasts and mystery.

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portance. The authorities say The workers corne quite voluntarily. attracted by the higher waxes in the Northwest, A labourer can make us much 90 yuan 47 month, compared with 50 yuan on the coast.

Prices are higher,

seine consumer goods cost double the Shanghai prices, but food is not much more expensive. The big

as

ugly.

A

two-way

Changed Face

and

INDUSTRY claims the entire

westorn suburb. The oil drilling being bulli machinery plant there, so is an agricultural im- plement factory, a big flour mill und

a rail repair shợp. All will be in operation by 1958.

Three construction companiog DIS changing the problem is still housing. The Lanchow population has ΣΤΟΥΣ in the Municipal past six years from 200,000 to employ a total of 8,000 workers over half a million.

on street paving, pipe-laying, House building has not kept puce.

making ditches and city build- ing. The other company,

the Lanchow Construction

The Pioneers

•

trany,

too of Two are under the Commitec They

Com-

So many plans, so many high

are already hopes,

Lunchow has ulways waxed being brought to substance.

wwned with the volume of Industrial production

has trie

frum Sinklang increased 20-fold since the central Asia. It covers the pass revolution. There are three known as the Kansu Corridors, have times as madiy hospitals. down which the caravans

comes directly under the wandered since long before with six times ELS many

THE head of the Lanchow At Ministry of Construction. It Christ Marco Polo cure that beds. Double the number of way, to taste the first fruits of

ninistrative Bureau told my emp

employs 30,000 workers, and boasts a handsome now ad- middle

Russian rait schools, unfolding Chinese civilisation in what was

system is expected where

"The fastest increase in popula- Klant East German

the a year ago. We ministrative building near over 10,000 students. Ten then

cranes pick their way through tion began Golden by 1962.

Another Bre is making round planned

have had disorder of mwn

difficulty bulking western suburbs. new junior technical schools City.

Planning is in the hands of the fringes of the Gobi Desert timber, steel pipes, girders and sufficient apartments."

Most of the workers still live a Construction training

Bureau with a another

The trade route latterly dried 10,000.

Lowards Pao Tao, capital of half-built mysterious construc-

Their staff of 200 engineers. The Connection with Sinking Inner Mongolia. It will link up lions. The refinery is expected in crowded dormitories,

wives and became tenuous,

families cannot be civil engineer in charge is The Golden

to produce 1,000,000 in three years' time with rail- 1949, there were

ught out from

rom the East until gradunte of Harbin University.. City turned dusty brown.

gasoline and diesel oli a year. ccommodation is available. way bullders driving out from

A Llice paved Today The first

of many Peking. monochrome

of it has already been

has been built out engaged in building a streets, the first city-wide patchwork, variously

carmarked for the new tractors settlement shaded, water system, the first fire sten from the bare surround-

he is technically Lanchow is destined then to that will break the virgin soll side the city to house rallway Lanchow, hills. Brown

rooftops

be the hub of a rail network of the sparsely inhabited North- workers; more are planned for "foreigner" but likely to remain trucks.

the other Immigrant pioneers, in this once remoto arta es im2 compressed

designed to develop between brown

huge west.

Lanchow is a narrow belt of migration changes the face of of Northwest earth walls,

untapped urea brown streets,

Technical training has had to buildings along the new industries will be stopped

Yellow the Chinese Northwest, brown

China. Its Band- people, brown

up to keep pace process the Taw materials

Industrial development. Russ with Gragged or coaxed from lands Two new training colleges are

Sixty-three buses where, up.

before none.

Under Control

HE

ing

it 19 D

Must

tons

of

two biggest projects are geared the junior technical schools. to the growing major Industry- One is for petroleum engineer-

Yellow banks in the big brown river. meandering TRiver, once called "China's Trees are being planted to bring only nomads used to roum, The being completed, in addition to Sorrow," regularly broke The back new life and colour, but decrepit dykes and flooded the that is a plan for the future. town. Now 2,000 metres of Sul, Sinklang is back in the

ມ factory for oil drilling ing, the other for railway reinforced concrete and stone national fold. Oll is pouring machinery, and the biggest oil construction. The Northwest faced embankment keep 11 out of the remote Yumen fields, refinery in

China,

Both are University, which

originally

MJ

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