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TSINGTAO (KIAOCHAU)
Wheat, barley, beans, millet, maize, and many other grains in sınaller quantities are grown
The foreign residential quarter at Tsingtao has been well laid out, and there are some good foreign hotels. first sod of the Shantung Railway was cut by Prince Henry of Prussia in October, 1899, and the line to Tsinanfu was opened on the 1st June, 1904. It has done a prosperous business from the day it was opened.
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The wireless installation at the Signal Berg, originally built by the Germans, was removed by the Japanese naval authorities in June, 1921, but a powerful new wireless station has been established by the Japanese military authorities at Taisichen. It is available to the public for urgent" telegrams. A thoroughly equipped observatory was opened in January, 1912, with funds supplied by the Union of German Navy. Leagues abroad. A Boys Middle school, built at a cost of Yen 228,000, now stands where the Germans had erected an acro-shed on the western slope of the Yamen. Forts. The port came under the control of the National Government on the 15th April, 1929, and was officially proclaimed to be a special area on the 1st May. The new municipality has been active in improving local conditions.
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In May 1929, a radiogram. service was made available for commercial use Roads in general are kept in a good state of repair and construction and extension have steadily increased with the result that at the end of 1933 the mileage of urban and suburban roads. was 239 and 373 kilometers respect tively. Finally, the motor-highway between Tsingtao and Chefoo, a distance of 150 miles, was completed, thus rendering available to motorists using Tsingtao as their base the use of various provincial highways. Private or commercial construcë tion work during 1933 comprised 539 buildings valued at about $3,850,000, among them various bank buildings and the Edgewater Mansions, a new and completely modern hotel. Additionality, the Municipality, completed the reconstruction of the pier extending outwards from the main promenade towards the island known as small Tsingtao, at a cost of $260,000 and erected a public stadium at a cost of $197,000- Comprising as it does a running track, a football field, space for tennis, basketball, ete it is in constant use by Chinese and Fo
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huThe Public Works Department has been steadily improving the water supply in spite of difficulties deriving from comparatively scanty rainfall and lack of access to rivers or lakes: The Telephone Administration has also been keeping abreast of local development and has undertaken the installa- tion of 400 additional instruments. Last, but by no means least, the greatest care is being given to education. "Municipal expenditure in the latter con- nection has doubled in the past two years!!
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According to a Chinese census, the population has increased by over 18,000 persons during 1933 and now stands at a total of 444,690 inhabitants. The most important development on hand at present is the construction of a new concrete, and granite pier in the Great Harbour, a basin reserved for the use of ocean and coastwise steamers. The work was commenced in July, 1932 and, according to the terms of the contract, should be completed in four years,
TRADE IN 1936
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InThe trade statistics recorded by the Customs for the value of the trade of Tsing- tao were as follows; direct foreign imports, $54.8 million, as compared with $51.2. million; coastwise importations of Chinese merchandise, $33.8 million as against $30.9 million direct foreign exports, $51.5 million as against $48.6 million( and coastwise exportations of Chinese produce, $59.6 million as compared with $74.6 million.. Owing to the flooding of the Shantung market with smuggled goods through the so-called "autonomous area in Eastern Hopeh," the import trade was inuch depressed, and at the end of the month of September Customs statistics showed the decrease in the value of imports for the period January-September 1936 to be nearly 30 per cent below the figure for the corresponding period in. 1935. During the last quarter of the year, following energetic counter-measures taken by the Government to prevent smuggleri goods finding transport southward by rail, there was a sharp recovery, and by the end of the year the disparity, reckonod in terms of gold units, had been reduced to appro- ximately 13 per cent. Activities of smugglers along the coast adjacent to Tsingtao, except in sporadic cases, were not greatly in evidence, the chief difficulty in this direction being the curbing of the organized and forcible smuggling of goods
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