Extraordinary Expansion of the Trade During Twenty-five Years Beans and bean products began to, assume an important position in China's export trade in the last] decade of the 19th century. says an article published by the Nankai 'Weekly Statistical Service. In' 1900, the total value of these commodities exported amounted to 76 million Hk. Tls., or 4.9 per cent. of China's total exports. In 1927, it was increased to 184.05. million Hk, Tis,, or 20.1 per cent, of Chin: total exports for that year. Thus, in the course of about a quarter of, century, beans and bean products rose from an insignificant, position to the first place in China's export, trade, The quantity of beans ported in 1927 is about 18 times 29.11 million piculs) the quantity of beans exported in 1900; that of bean oil, nine times (2.47 million piculs); and that of beancake, 13; times (24.89 million piculs).
In the table given below, it shown that of China's export of! beans and bean products in 1927 Russian Pacific ports absorbed, in terms of quantity, 45.2 per cent. of yellow bean, 23.9'per cent, of bean il and 91.0 per cent. of beancake; Japan adsorbed 14.9" per cent, of yellow begins, 40.9 per cent. of other beans and 603 per cent. of beancake; Great, Britain absorbed 81.9 per cent. and the Netherlands, 25.66 per cent. of bean oil; and Korea, Hongkong and France absorbed more than 10 per cent. of other beans, As to the relative importance of ports of departure, -Dairen and the Harbin district ranked first and second respectively in China's export of beans and bean pro-duets in 1927: 48.6 per cent. of yellow beans, '741 per cent. of bean oil and 57.9 per cent, of beancake produced in the whole! of China in 1927 left for foreign markets through Dairen; 37.3 per cent. of yellow beans, 22.5 per cent. of bean oil and 23.1 per cent. of beancake through the Harbin district. Besides Dairen and the Harbin district, Antung and Lungchingtsun were the next important ports for China's export trade in beans and bean products in 1927.
The following table show the distribution of beans and bean pro-duets exported from China in Yellow Bean Other Beans Bean Oil Beaneake Piculs Per 000)
cent.
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