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SHANGHAI

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Many foreign houses, surrounded by gardens, have been erected near the outside roads, especially on the Bubbling Well, Sicawei, and Sinza Roads, which are the main outlets from the Settlement, and from which most of the other roads branch off. These roads are planted with trees on both sides, forming fine avenues of five to six miles in length. Building activity of late years may be described as remarkable and unpar- alleled in the history of the port.

TRADE AND COMMERCE

Shanghai is the great emporium for the trade of the Yangtsze and Northern and Corean ports, and to some extent for Japan. The total import and export trade of 1868 amounted to sixty-five million taels. It steadily increased each year until 1881, when it reached Hk. Tls. 141,921,357, but afterwards showed a great decline, the total for 1884 having been twenty per cent. less than that for 1881. There was, however, a rapid recovery up to 1905. The gross trade, import and export, for the ten years, from 1915 to 1924 as returned by the Customs Statistical Department, is given below:--

1915... Hk. Tls. 549,379,765 at Ex. 1.41 Mex. $774,625,468 at Ex. 2s. 7 d., £ 71,247,688

571,245,672

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580,232,838

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627,094,382

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$879,718,335 $945,779,526 $1,009,621,955

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768,006,155

1.68

1920...

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840,969,438

1.58

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927,477,660

1.50

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1922... 1923...

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989,715,490

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$1,290,250,340 $1,328,731,712 $1,391,216,490 $1,484,573,235

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1,105,117,246

1.51

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$1924...

1,183,543,359

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$1,810,821,339

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3s. 31 d., £ 94,761,326 4s. 3 d., £125,263,808 5s. 3 d., £165,755,416 6s. 4d., £243,201,949 6s. 9 d., £285,579,205 3s. 11d,, £183,321,756 3s. 9d., £185,571,654 3s. 5 d., £192,244,354

3s. 7d., £331,512,344

The gross value of the trade of the port in 1926 was Hk. Tls. 1,469,893,484, as com- pared with Hk. Tls. 1,181,077,647 in 1925,

Shanghai is not only the largest trade emporium but also the most important manufacturing centre in China. The port contributed 41.81 per cent. of the total Customs revenue collected in 1926, as compared with 37.16 per cent. in 1925, and 39.58 per cent. in 1924.

DIRECTORY

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ABRAHAM, KATZ & Co., General Import

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M. Katz

Ting-shing

ABRAHAM, BROS., Importers, Exporters and Commission Agents, Customs Clearance, Shipping and Forwarding Agents-12A, Nanking Road; Teleph. Cent. 6320; Tel. Ad: Abbros; Codes: A.B.C. 5th edn. im- proved, Bentley's and Western Union

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General Managers for Van Chong & Co.

K. Y. Chau N. Y. Sze

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Directors-J. A. Trevor Thomas (chairman), D. L. Anderson, A. L. Dickson and W. C. Foster

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