Canton, May 21 'Of all the private enterprises that the Kwangtung Provincial, Govern. ment has entered into that of manufacturing and selling cement has been the most Iuerative. At Saichuen, the northwestern suburb, which is' fast Becoming the factory centre of the ity, tha cement plant went up in 1983, and it was producing before that year drew to a close, Lately it thas been expanded, and the old Government cement plant on Honam bland closed, it being so antiquated that It was mo longer economical to Soomp. Be: xiang. And tha walls, of the new arsenal, quite @ way north of the city, were beginning to be fereoted the year that the reconstruc tion plan began to be carried out.
This is not the frst time that Kwangtung has made its own wat materials, but rifes and cartridges, lo, heretofore turned out have been anything but first-class. In the near future the most modern of rifles, machine-guns and heavy pieces of ordnance will be manufactured: Kwangtung will be able completely to equip her fighting force with every Jsort of weapon of her own make.
Seventy-three sorts of taxes went by the board during 1994, the second year of the Three Year Plan, and Their abolition at a time when every cent was needed to help defray the staggering cost, of erecting so many factories and other Government build Ings, ete, was most commendable. When conditions more nearly. aprnroximate the normal others Will be abolished.
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