Gradual Extension of Industries: Feo New Plants but Expansion of Those Already in Operation: The Development of Electricity HILE no one can pretend that the engineering trade in China has been good during the year, certain indications show that its basis is broadening. Perhaps it would be more correct to say that the basis of industry is undergoing this process, but the result is the. same, for wherever industrialization takes place the" demand for machinery becomes the more insistent. In another article alongside this one will be seen the considerations which have hampered any great electrical undertakings, and generally speaking these apply' to other enterprises in engineering. The general /result is that where it might be expected that tangible Progress would have been the case, there is seen rather only the development of plant already in operation.
It does not seem far fetched to gauge the amount "of engineering business done by the contracts fixed for what may be described as the primary gen-orating plant—boilers for the steam necessary to drive engine or turbine, engines of the Diesel type and so forth. It is not always easy to trace these, but one may note with interest a new flour mill in Mongolia, and a new alkali factory in the vicinity of Tientsin, one steel and one machinery works all to be. operated by Chinese, The coal mining industry is growing steadily all over China, and one mine in the north has just gone in for further power in this direction. The same is true of other enterprises in different parts of the country, and -it is satisfactory to have seen during the year extensions of tramways, electric lighting stations, cotton mills, cement works and so forth. All these indicate that development has only been retarded during 1925 by the unsettlement in the country, and that there isa most promising future for engineering.
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