The Chinese Government has embarked upon a gigantic programme of making refugees cultivate more than 2,000000 mow of arable but deserted land in Ningsha province and to carry out the plan 100,000 refugees will be mobilized to settle their livelihood problem. According to a Chinese correspondent writing from Chungking, the Government has appointed "experts to supervise the work and established a land reclamation office in that province.
'A, statistical report made by the experts reveal that the province has 14,900,000 mow of vacant land on which a gigantic reconstruction programme can be carried out but that owing to lack of a good drainage system and of interest on the part of the nomadic life led by many people there the tilling of land has long been neglected, "Under the official supervision, village houses are being built and agricultural implements and the various kinds of seeds are being bought and transported to the province so that refugees may make themselves at home in that country. The cost of living around the two districts chosen for refugee land cultivation work is said to be very low and the place is rich in agricultural products.
At present, the relief scheme is to be carried out in only two well chosen districts, namely Wangpaocheng (within the jurisdiction of Ningsha hsien) along the western bank of the Yellow River and Ning-wu hsien along the eastern bank of the river, There are 2,000,000 mow of arable land in these two districts where four tenths of the population ere Mohammedans, five tenths, Hans and only one tenth, Mongolian, The mixed race live together in a friendly atmosphere especially since the start of the hostilities, it is said,
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