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In railways, for instance, China possesses only 6.000 miles as compared with 35,000 miles in India and 250,000 miles in the United States of America: 40,000 miles of railway in China are an urgent necessity.
Foreign Office, October 10, 1921.
1. Hong Kong.
Appendix,
PART III.-Appendices.
I.—British Industrial Concerns in China.
II.-British General Merchants in Hong Kong.
III-British General Merchants in China.
IV.-Railways.
V-Shipping in Chinese Ports.
VI.-Shipping: Percentage of Tounage.
VII Shipping Lines.
VIII. Banks.
IX.-Loans.
X-Trade with China: Total Values.
XI.-Trade with China: Percentages.
XII.-British Newspapers in Hong Kong and China. XIII-British Missionary Societies.
XIV, British Education in China
IV. Trade of Principal Treaty Ports.
APPENDIX 1.
British Industrial Concerns in China.
Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company (Limited).
engineering.
Shipbuilding and
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company. Shipbuilding and engineering.
Green Island Cement Company. Cement works.
W. S. Bailey and Co. Engineers and shipbuilders.
Macdonald and Co. Engineers and shipbuilders.
China Light and Power Company (Limited). Electric light works.
Hong Kong Electric Company. "Electric light works.
Hong Kong and China Gas Company Gas works.
Hong Kong Ice Company. Ice factory.
Kowloon-Canton Railway Company. "Railway works. Hong Kong Rope Manufacturing Company. Rope works.
The Hong Kong Saw Mills. Saw mills.
The China Mining and Smelting Company (Limited). Smelting works.
China Sugar Refinery Company. Sugar refinery.
Taikoo Sugar Refinery Company. Sugar refinery.
China and Japan Telephone and Electric Company, Telephone service.
The Hong Kong Tramway Company. Tramway.
The Peak Tramway Company. Tramway (funicular).
Wei San Knitting Company. Woollen factory.
A. S. Watson and Co. Aerated water factory.
Hong Kong Iron Mining Company. Iron mining (undeveloped),
Messrs. Kelly and Walsh. Printing works.
Noronha and Co. Printing works.
Guedes and Co. Printing works.
Hong Kong Printing Press. Printing works.
South China Morning Post (Limited)
Printing works.
Hong Kong Daily Press (Limited). Printing works. China Mail (Limited). Printing works.
There is also in Hong Kong a cigarette factory, a glass factory, a soap and candle factory, a match factory, a biscuit factory and a tannery. Lard is produced in large quantities under Government inspection. The dairy farm has one of the best-equipped dairies in the world, with cold storage and other accessories. The chief meat, dairy and produce company in Hong Kong is undertaking the packing of meat in tins and otherwise for export, and promises to become an important, if not a controlling, factor in the tinned meat trade of southern Asia.
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So Hong Kong is a very perfect small industrial centre, and its large concerns are entirely in British hands. Two soap factories on American lines have been projected, one by the Standard Oil Company. Our only local competitors are Chinese, who have not yet developed any big industrial concerns in South China, though examples such as the Kwantung Government cement works at Canton and the Nanyang Tobacco Company at Hong Kong show that the Chinese are no longer oblivious to their opportunities.
2. Shanghai.
*Ewo Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company, Cotton mills.
Oriental Cotton Manufacturing Company. Cotton mills.
*Kung Yik Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company. Cotton mills.
Lao Kung Mow Spinning and Weaving Company. Cotton mills. *Yangtszepoo Cotton Mill Company. Cotton mills.
Ewo Silk Filature. Silk filature.
Ewo Yuen Press-Packing Company. Wool-cleaning and press-packing factory. Liddell Brothers and Co. Wool-cleaning and press-packing factory. Mackenzie and Co. Wool cleaning and press-packing factory.
Shanghai Dock and Engineering Company. Shipbuilding and engineering. Jardine's New Shipbuilding and Engineering Works. Shipbuilding and
engineering.
Jardine's Marine Motor Works. Shipbuilding and engineering,
China Soap and Candle Company. Soap and candle works.
British Cigarette Company. Cigarette factory,
Kiangsu Chemical Works. Sulphuric acid works.
Shanghai Mutual Telephone Company. Telephone service.
Shanghai Electric Construction Company. Tramway.
Shanghai Waterworks Company. Waterworks.
Shanghai Gas Company. Gas works.
Shanghai Ice and Cold Storage Company. Ice and cold storage.
China Import and Export Lumber Company. Saw mills.
Lih Teh Oil Mill Company. Oil mill,
S. Moutrie and Co. Piano and organ factory.
Shanghai Horse Bazaar and Motor Company (Limited). Motor car body
factory.
Eastern Garage and Star Garage Company. Motor car body factory.
Central Garage. Motor car body factory.
Hall and Holtz. Furniture factory. Retail.
Weeks and Co. Furniture factory. Retail.
Arts and Crafts (Limited). Furniture factory. Retail. Llewellyn and Co. Aerated water factory.
Aquarius Company (Limited). Aerated water factory. Mercantile Printing Company (Limited) Printing works, Messrs. Kelly and Walsh (Limited). Printing works. Messrs. Brewer and Co. (Limited). Printing works. North China Daily News and Herald. Printing works. Shanghai Mercury (Limited). Printing works. Shanghai Times. Printing works.
Its
It can be seen from the above that Shanghai has developed from being merely a port into becoming the most progressive manufacturing centre in China. staple product is cotton goods, which is the most promising of the new industries of China. A 1920 report gave the total number of cotton mills in China as sixty- three with 1.422,832 spindles. Of these, twenty-six are in Shanghai and thirteen in the surrounding district. Of the Shanghai cotton mills, five are British and five are Japanese. (In the whole of China, Japanese are credited with having in operation at the present time 16 mills with 469,000 spindles.) But the principal competition comes from the Chinese themselves, who are becoming more and more interested in the development of their cotton industry. In June 1920 there were thirty-five Chinese-owned cotton mills in operation in China, having 728,112 spindles set up and 277,316 spindles on order: and there were seventeen new mills being erected, for which 318,016 spindles and 1.510 looms were on order in England and
America.
• Mesars. Jardine. Matheson and Co. are general managers for these three mills; at the beginning of 1921 an amalgamation was proposed, and the formation of a new company with capital of 5,000,000 taels.
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