Industrial Shanghai 'The report of the Shanghai Municipal Coun-cit Industrial Department published on another pose is worthy of suds Not only dace it pre ent. authoritatively the' industrial striation, Shamshai Inst year, expecially. ax far a the Tnternational Setth-ment ie. concerned, and {races business tendencies, but Ht revests the sven diversity of Shangha's industrial efforts, ind: potentialities. Stanghat has ever' been, re: erded as an Important manufacturing. or bro-port, and distributing Chinese snd ite pre-eminence har been fs:
world products, Recent. years, however, have induced a transformation which is altering th conception and the city's industrial basi is bes coming wider and more diversined. With the exception of things Tike motor cars and acroplanesvand. who knows what these alleyway frorksnops con actually' demthere. is scarcely anything within the limitations. of easy access fo' materials, that cannot. be: Produced' locally. JOne interesting and expanding branch. of local Sctvity is the manufacture of cosmetics, supe fand. toothpaste. This probably. represents ne challenge to Paris" perfumeries, whose. appeal fein the Wigher gra, but shows a native etort to meet the needs of the Increasing mime for of Chinese women. using cosmetics China, Where a mere means could formerly ies of foreign women there are millions now who are able to purchase a jar of Shanghai made cream, with a box of powder and fof perfume to satisfy that' universal leaving for allurement, Not all are engaged in the manufacture of jars but the report reveals that there are 100 glass factories in Shanghai. Toothpaste is another local product meeting with suicetss and with cosmetics and soap reponsibie for a sizeable industry alike "small alleyway houses structed factories. An the toothpaste industry metal tubes, and the tstoni fin the report that in addition to large fies of tubes imported from abroad there are five factories producing a total of 110.000 tubes Jo day. Reducing the toothpaste industry to such terms shows how extensive it is and how widespread is dental hygiene becoming. Show-business acumen and adaptability to market Jeemands there should be no limit to Shanghai's productive possibilities.
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