Nanchang, Mar. 10.
Taking advantage of the rich production of lime there, the Kiangsi Provincial Government is arranging with the Hunan Provincial Govern ment for the joint establishment of a $2,000,000 cement works at Pinghsiang, western Kiangsi, it is learned here to-day.
At present there are seven Chinese-owned cement factories in Chins, of which the Chee Hsin Cement Ca, at Tongshan, along the Pelping-Liao-ning Railway, is the biggest and best Established in 1898, the Chee Hsin' Ca. is capitalized at' $14,000,000 and it"annual productive capacity is 1,600,000 barrels.
Pinghsiang in Kiangsi is a coal-mining town, connected with the! Canton-Hankow Railway "by the Pinghsiang-Chuchow. branch line of the Chekiang-Kiangst Rallway—Cen-'News.
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