Directory_and_Chronicle_1936 — Page 759

Directories & Chronicles 香港指南 All

NANKING

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placed in position and the necessary machinery ordered for the factory; but the main buildings await erection under the supervision of technical experts yet to arrive. A daily output of about 150 tons of sulphate of ammonia is being provided for, and the new factory will be the greatest industrial enter- prise so far undertaken in the Nanking district. In the city itself, 19 munici- pal roads were completed during the year at a cost of over 209,000 dollars, and five more roads were put under construction at an estimated cost of 240,000 dollars. The new bund road at Hsiakwan and the Chung Yang Road leading from the Drum Tower to the projected Chung Yang Men railway station are counted amongst the more important thoroughfares completed. The Kiangnan Railway Company have undertaken to construct a railway from Nanking to Chaoan, a place near the Kwangtung border in Fukien. The line is to consist of five sections, of which the second, running from Wuhu to Sunchiapu, was opened to traffic in November, and the first, from Nanking to Wuhu, is expected to be completed early in 1935. According to a census taken by the Metropolitan Police Headquarters, the population in the Nanking municipal area increased by 69,824 during the year under review, making a total of 777,230 persons now resident within the municipality.

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