Recent reports on the work performed under the auspices of th National Economic Council are encouraging to those who economic reconstruction as the most important problem for China's solution to-day, The Couneit did not come formally into existence unfit 1093, al= though for two years a preparatory office had been at work and was actually performing some of the duties Jeventually taken over by the Council itself. The Council works through a Standing Committe under which an Advisory Committee, the Secretary General of the Council and. the League of Nations Experts respective.
perform the functions assigned 10 them. 'The Committees which work with the Secretary-General as their Link with the Standing Committee, ar six in number, They deal with Rural Rehabilitation, Education, Health, /Hupeh Dyke,' Hydraulic Engineering Jand Roads respectively. The Bureau of Agriculture works directly with the Rehabilitation Committee, the Central Health Station with the Health Com= ice, the Bureau of Hydraulic En-Kineering with the Hydraulle Engineering Committee and the Bureau Roads with the Road Committee. The National Employment. Bureau for Intellectual and. Technical Workers and the Commission on Land Research and Planning come directly under the Secretary-General, in ad-ition to various secretariats'as well as the Headquarters of the Kiangsi Rural Welfare Centres, The im= portant Commissions on Serieulture and the Cotton Industry, whose re. Ports have recently attracted considerable attention also come within the Secretary-Generat's portfolio. The Standing Committee includes important members of the Chinese Government, among them General Chiang Kai-shek, Mr. Wang Ching-wei, Mr. Sun Fo and Dr. H. H, Kung, as well as Dr. T. V. Soong. The Council's efforts deserve sympathetic land intelligent study especially as its reports adhere strictly to the exposition of work done and do not at= tempt to explore the empyrean of extravagant expectations.
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