A new mine that promises to be of considerable value was recently opened in the hills about fifteen miles north of Tsienklang. Coal in fairly large quantities is being mined and transported by motor truck to the banks of the Red River where it shipped by junk to southern cities and to ports outside the province.
The Kwangsi_ government which controls the mine has seen prospects of expansion and at presen are engaged in laying a narrow gauge railway from Tsienklang to the mine, The railroad bed has been laid and the rails are slowly being put in place. It is planned that by the end of the present year this steel road will be in operation, and puffing engines that have been shipped in= and will be operating, A feverish activity in motor road building is also said to be taking place between Nanning and Moming, 8 military centre about thirty miles north of the provincial capital, This Gewena Liu Jucming, newly ap pointed chairman of the Charhar Provineial Government, was officially sworn into office at Kalgan on Sunday.
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