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ENCLOSURE NO. 2 IN CANTON DESPATCH TO B.E. SHANGHAI. NO.211 of 21st NOVEMBER 1938
"PLAN OF WHAMPOA PORT"
Dr. E.P. Goodrich addressed the Canton Rotary Club
Dr. E.P. Goodrich, adviser of the Whampoa Port
Development Administration addressed the Rotary Club of Canton on "The Plan of Whampoa Port"
at the Regular Club Meeting on September 8, 1937.
The Speech is as following:
When I last appeared before you, I was not in a position to give you a prophecy of what the improvement of Whampoa Port
would be like or how large it would be or how it would affect either Canton City or Greater Canton. I could go no further than to tell you how such a problem should be approached.
After two months of intensive work, with an exception- ally good staff and with more than one hundred percent of
cooperation from a very large number of Chinese and foreign
officials, so much progress has been made in reaching conclusions
and in developing a design for the Whampoa Port development and for the Port City, that it seemed wise to embrace this opportunity to make public the several fundamental conclusions which have
been reached, and the progress which has been made with the
plans.
Employing, among others, the methods outlined in my
first talk, we studied the past population of China for 500 years and its rate of growth. We did the same for Kwangtung
Province for 250 years; also for the city of Canton over its
history.
RATE OF GROWTH
The rate of growth of Kwangtung Province has paralleled
that of China, but the population of Canton has not followed
that of the Province. It was relatively larger (compared with the province) in early times, and has not kept pace with it
during the past century or two. However, during the past decade the increase in population has been marked, since the program of
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