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13. Bhamo to Teng Yueh (Tien-Mien), 123 miles. Preliminary surveys completed; 2 feet 6 inches or metre gauge. No developments.
14. Shasi to Singyifu (Kweichow) via Chengteh and Kueiyang with branch from Chengteh to Changsha, the whole aggregating 800 miles. Final agreement signed between the Chinese Government and Messrs. Pauling (British) on July 25th, 1914. Surveys completed.
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15. Kiaochow (Kaomi) Yichow-fu railway (Shantung), to join the Tientsin-Nanking railway on the Kiangsu border; also a line from Tsinanfu (Shantung) to Shuntehfu (Chihli) joining the Tientsin-Pukow and the Peking-Hankow`lines.
16. Lung-Ts'in to Yü-Hai. Contract made in 1912, between the Chinese Government and the Compagnie Générale de Chemins de Fer et de Tramways en Chine, of Brussels, for the construction and equipment of the Railway, thereby authorising the company to issue a 5 per cent. gold loan of £10,000,000 for that purpose. This line will run, generally, in an east and west direction, through the Provinces of Kansu, Shansi, Honan, and Kiangsu. Its course is laid from Lanchowfu, to pass through the important cities of Sianfu and Tungkwan, to absorb the existing line between Honanfu, Chengchow (where it crosses the Peking-Hankow line), and Kaifengfu, then to bend slightly southwards to Hsuchowfu (where it crosses the Tientsin-Pukow line), and thence to Haichow, on the north coast of Kiangsu. The section from Hsuchowfu to Kwanyintang (Honan), a distance of 360 miles, has been opened, and from Hsuchow to Haichow a road-bed has been laid. Construction has been delayed owing to the war.
17. Tatungfu to Tungkwan. The Chinese Government in 1913 signed an agreement with the Compagnie Générale de Chemins de Fer et de Tramways en Chine, of Brussels, for a loan of £10,000,000 to build a railway from Tatungfu, southwards through the centre of Shansi, to Tungkwan, where it will meet the Lung-Ts'in-Yu-Hai line, the company having the option to extend south-westwards to Chengtu, the total length being about 960 miles. Proposals were also in the air for further extensions south-east to Chungking, and then south-west to join the Yunnan Railway at Yünnanfu.
18. Chingchow to Nanning.-By an agreement, dated February, 1914, with the Banque Industrielle de Chine, a line will be built from Chinchow (Yamchow), on the coast west of Pakhoi, to Nanning, thence through the Yukiang Valley to Paiseting and Kütsingfu (a town north-east of Yünnanfu), where it will join the Yünnanfu- Chungking line.
19. Sinyang (Honan).
Tengyang (Anhui) Railway. Chinese Government pro-
posal. Miles 270. Surveys completed.
20. Siangyang-Shasi Railway, 207 miles Surveyed 1911.
21. Siangyang-Kuanghsui Railway, 130 miles. Surveyed 1911. 22. Yenchoufu-Kaifengfu Railway, via Tsaochoufu, 230 miles. 23. Wuhu-Nanking Railway, 55 miles.
24. Central Kiangsui Railway (Icheng-Shiherhuei-Kuachou-Yangchou-Taichoufu- Tsingkiangpu), 60 miles. Surveyed 1910. To be taken over by the Government.
25. Kwangsi Railway. From Canton to Wuchow, Nanning, Lungchow, and connect at Langson with the Tongking Railway. Sections surveyed.
This is the first
26. Yushan-Changshan (Yuchang) Railway, Chinese capital. section of the projected Kiangsi Railway to connect with the Hunan system (at Ping- hsiang) via Hsingan, Anjen, Nanchang, Linkiang, and Yuanchow.
27. Yunnanfu-Pose Railway. Partly surveyed.
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.
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