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One of the most interesting document recently publ the Nanking authori report of Mr.
Chen Kung-po, on a four passed a resolution to the effec that the planning of the nation's key industries should be completed withi pursuance o Minister "of Industry formulated a plan which, if it can be carried into effect, should prove of inestimable benefit to the Yangtze valley in which the tivities of the government in this connection are to be centred, Mr, Chen develops the ide underlying the recently adopted policy of the government that it unification economic by. force method is always an expensive one, volves the outlay of money in unproductive directions and is, not always the best means of securing unity of ideals. Mr. Chen's belief is that if the Yangtze valley can be 80 developed as to enhance prosperity, if loyal provinces can obtain benefits which the other provinees, can neither enjoy, nor develop for themselves, these latter will in time be only too anxious to enter the fold, and that national unity will thereby be achieved on a ba: the firmest possible nature.
probable that, should heme succeed, Nanking would achieve much of the end it has in view, but whether it would be successful in enticing Canton back into a common organ of government remains to be for the leaders in the south are also considering schemes not unlike the one that Mr. Chen so ably presents.
The plan is a big one, It embraces the control of colton, cereals and coal, the construction of plants for the handling of fron and steel, ammonia-sulphate, the manufacture of machinery, the loan of spindles and looms to the spinning and weaving industries, the creation of an agriculture?' experimental station, ation into stock sericulture, fishing, the erection raising, provement the i
of a paper mill, and, finally at some late date, when industry the Yangtze valley justifies it, the erection of a hydro-electric plant capable of supplying the needs of a vast area." But large, though it may be, it-is not so huge.as to be incapable of achievement. What is the most gratifying feature of the whole scheme.is that though it is labelled with a name of Bolshevik origin—the Four Year Plan—it is not intended to do what the authorities in Moscow have partly done. There is in Mr. Chen's suggestions no idea that the agricultural nature of the people should be transform: ed into an industrial. It involves no attempt to change national characteristics, but -envisages the embarkation upon a scheme of all-round improvement which
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