The Archive · 1928

The Model City of China

Development of Nantungchow from a Coast Village Ww several days ayo, on the fon of the formal opening of the Nantungchow University, Mr. Chu Min-yi, president of the Sino-French Industrial Institute, who is, member of the Kuomintang Contral Executive Committee, said that Nuntungehow hed long been famed as the model city of China.

During his recent visit, Mr. Chu visited "all the public" gantons, library, embroidery schools, institutes for the blind, dear" and dumb, and many cotton mills, and found everything to be up-to-date. Etticiency was the motto of the people.

There were large theatres com: parable with any in other parts of China and there were at least 500 miles of well-built roads. The hospitals he found to be extremely well equipped and the museums contained many thousands of ¢xhibits. The inmates of the orphanages were well off and happy.

On the whole, said Mr. Chu, tungchow is well worth, a' visit. From a small coastal village a Score of years ago, the town had developed very rapidly through the efforts of the late Mr. Chang Chien {into one of the leading cities of the country. This was, he said, in accord with the will of the late Dr.

Sun Yat-sen and was paving the way towards the development of China a3 a whole,

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