""At the time of its inception, the National. Economic Council " was Placed under the chairmanship of The "President. of the Executive Yuan' (General Chiang Kai-shek) and" the vice-chairmanship of the Vice-President. of the Executive Youn (Me. 'T. V., Soong, Minister of Finance), and it was laid down that the. Council should be "subordinate to the Executive Yuan. ye special technical committees were created to deal" with public Toads, hydraulic engineering, public Health, education, and rural reconstruction, Like the National Eeonmic Council itself, the. technical committees are langoly deliberative, polley-making bodies and three of Them have been provided with a ministrative organs. to carry" out wir decisions. These are the ential field health station, urban public roads and "hydraulic fogiteering "borean, "These com flees and bureaux now constitute remain divisions of the Council Saperviston of Highways cmmeatsing hat the asaron out of China's economic problems Ment of means oF communication freely dopents spon the lone the" National" Beonomie Council {inion "of "the construction of a undertook tin May 1962 the super
atom of inter-rovincal highways frase highways have. been built Ith thes help of tenne from the nei "Two food-building projects genewalon, of Bureau yo bein nit lo Roads, ths) one in the three provinces of Kiangsu, " Chekian Rud. Anhwei, andthe other in. even Provinces of Honan, THupeh, Anhvel,-Kiangsi, Kiangsu, "Eh fang, and Hunan. The total estiinated cost of construction for the Hhree-province "road—project is 199,000 and that for the seven Jintely one hundred million dollars. rovineo sond project ie approxi-
Work Started he, three-province project, provided for the construction of six Inter-provincial highways.* Five of these have already eon com-Bleted and opened to, tremie, while work on the sixth will be Anished by the end of October 1983. The total length of the six highways is over one. thousand kilometers, Of 4 total of 22,000 Kilometers of highways in the geven-province project, bout, 2,000 kilometers have been completed, linking up more than 8,000 kilometers of existing high-
"Yin addition, the Bureaw has built an experimental road with diferent ifoes'o pavement rained researches, concerning road materals, trafic survey, oil fields in Suethuen Province and cost of high= way construction.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.