In China Increasing Chungking, Aug. 5.
Today {or the first time official information was given on the large Chinese oil wells in Western Kansu by Mr. Chang Li Men, director of the Industrial and Mining Adjustment Commission of the Ministry of Economics.
Although production is still limited, he said, the heating and cracking processes have enabled the Chinese to use this oil for aviation purposes. The Government, he added, has ordered ihe manufacture of a further set of cracking machinery to make aviation oil. Another set has been ordered from abroad.
Discussing production in China of iron and steel, Mr. Chang said: "In three months we will be able to supply all the urgent requirements of iron ore. Within two years China Will be able to turn out a sufficient number of light rails for the completion of the three hundred miles of railway between Chungking and Chengtu; the construction of the railroad bed is proceeding satisfactorily."
He also announced that the Government has ordered the construction of a huge plant in Yunnan which will be devoted exclusively to the manufacture of steel.—Havas
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