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populated and far from being fully cultivated, though development is increasing. It is on the banks of a river navigable for large but shallow-draught steamers, and is in direct and uninterrupted communication for six months during the year with the fertile land about Petuna S.W. and of Sansing N.E.; also with vast districts watered by the Amur river and those on the banks of the less important Ussuri River, near Habarovsk. Possessing advantages such as these, Harbin promises eventually to become one of the greatest trading centres of China when the present disturbances in the surrounding country cease. The country around is a bean-growing country par excellence.
North Manchuria being also essentially a wheat country, it follows that the flour industry at Harbin is a flourishing one, though less than formerly owing to restrictions on import into the Priamur. There is a sugar factory at Ashiho on the railway, 26 miles east of Harbin. The timber trade has recently shown marked development. The net value of the trade of the district, as shown by the Maritime Customs returns, was Hk. Tls. 104,757,349 in 1928, as compared with Hk. Tls. 90,044,789 in 1927, Hk. Tls. 76,891,478 in 1926, Hk. Tls. 52,794,245 in 1925, and Hk. Tls. 53,301,960 in 1924. The New Harbin Municipality has put into active operation the long-devised plans for improving the town, including excellent cemented pavements and improved macadamised roads. Drainage has received considerable attention. The telephone system is automatic, and excellent, and managed by a special department of the Chinese Eastern Railway. The population of Harbin with Fuchiatien is given as 211,237. The Pinchiang villages contain 74,147 people, according to a recent census. Fuchiatien has 89,017 inhabitants according to the same census. The palatial building of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank is evidence of the importance attached by the Bank to its Harbin branch, and the establishment in 1928 of a branch of the Chartered Bank was further proof of the increasing importance of Harbin as a commercial centre. Private enterprise and the Chinese Eastern Railway have done a good deal in the direction of town improvement.
DIRECTORY
ADLER, NICOLAI, Import-Export 85,
Kitaiskaya Street
AGAFUROFF BROS., LTD., Dealers in J. & P.. Coats & Clarke's Goods-41, Sveznaya Street
ALEXIEFF, DONATELLI & Co., Moving Picture Theatres Kitaiskaya and Mongolskaya Street; P.O. Box 357
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會商國美
AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Chairman-J. L. Curtis
Secretary & Treasurer-G. B. Ott
AMERICAN DRUG Co.-20, Koreiskaya St.
W. Leineweber
AMERICAN MANCHURIAN CORPORATION, Export-Import: Hides, Skins, Furs, Bristles, Horse Hair and Wool 14, Russkaya Street
N. M. Fitzer, manager
司公業實國美
AMERICAN MILLING AND INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION, Importers of American Products; Owners of: A-shi-ho Sugar Factory and Distillery, A-shi-ho Ŏil- nill, A-shi-ho Match Factory and "Dwigatel" Wagon-building Works at Tallin (Esthonia)-9, Skvoznaya Street; Teleph. 39-80; Tel. Ad: Amilco
A. I. Kagan, president
J. A. Kagan, vice do. (San Francisco) W. Toritch, signs per pro. (tech. dept.)
P. V. Ivanov, engineer
D. B. Lukashevker (sugar dept.)
P. J. Kutiin
L. M. Vorobeynikov
do.
do.
D. V. Azovtzev (alcohol dept.)
A-shi-ho Sugar Factory (A-shi-ho)
D. P. Umnov, manager
A. A. Simko & Z. Kiseleff, engrs. L. N. Rappoport, controller "Dwigatel" Wagon-building Works
(Tallinn)
R. Stengel, manager
AMERICAN RUSSIAN TRADING Co.-16,
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