Setting aside the disadvantages of the clay soil and its problems of drainage, Nanking possesses several ecological assets, such as the prox-unity of iron up the riser and coal, with Time-stone very near, whic' might turn it into an important smelting centre. The—country around is rich in grain, and flour milling might become an industry. The city was once famous for ite sill, and now possesses a number and while the sit re is hardly likely to cover save in silk specialities such ax the tapestry for which it ix no: famous, there is every likely the cotton manufactur growing. There are 'Deoviingg the vers'
me for building and all that is. needs revise to. set them work= rat their produce in At present. ingest cold storage plant in the F the British International Company' factory, which is the largest employer of labour locally. "How fa could all these be extended? Like the vest of China, the district Nanking has wonderful and all that has mained lacking is the initiative and honesty to turn these potentialities Into really live assets.
The new Nanking will depend entirely on whether the resources of China as a whole 1 develop: fas her friends hope.
Without prosperous count capable of trade and i construction of a alone capital, would be ally impossible, The plans axe at precent being drawn up for the new cits, under the supervision nine Bareass, which 1 in a narrow and congested district which should serve as a idea (o those working, within walls of the necessity: for aments, provide for exten slong and changes: which at thre:
Fight seem to look #0 far into the fature and ing the Drum Tower area is included the cireusference of a slightly dis torted circle of ies redive, Thic is designed to be set ande as Nankin federal district separated from Kiangsu Province and similar to the Dis. trict of Columbia in which stands or the federal trict round Canber It will tae in more than 200 square ries and include a large territory on the Pukow side Fetching 43 miles up So far has this arrangement pro-grossed that it has already been approved by the Central Govern ment and the Nanking Municipality ind we were given to understand that all that remains is the neces sary approval of the cession Nanking by the Provinc ties." The "Gre she millions when the city has developed, thus giving a populs-density slightly better thea la other great cities of the world, The best idea the visitor can oh. tain of the size of the city. and suburbs as they are being planned climbing to top. Peichiko, oF, Wire which sas once, the site of a historic fa! fuged but which is now oseuyed bya wireless station and 2° tone tower which, houses, meteorological and. other" scientific instrume From this vantage point one "can see over the walls derees the wile, Undulating country stout. to the hills which form the edge of a basin in which Nanking fies. Tae rough the live of these hills, save fos sector on the. Pukow side, and
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