The International Development of ChinaSun, Yat-sen
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The International Development of China
Sun, Yat-sen
China -- Economic conditions -- 1912-1949; Railroads -- China
by a dry United States of America, a project to supply cheaper and
better tea will surely be a profitable one.
Soya bean as a meat substitute was discovered by the Chinese and used
by the Chinese and the Japanese as a staple food for many thousands of
years. As meat shortage has been keenly felt in carnivorous countries
at present, a solution must be found to relieve it. For this reason
I suggest that in this International Development Scheme we should
introduce this artificial meat, milk, butter and cheese to Europe and
America, by establishing a system of soya bean factories in all the
large cities of those countries, so as to provide cheap nitrogenous
food to the western people. Modern factories should also be established
in China to replace those old and expensive methods of production by
hand, so as to procure better economic results as well as to produce
better commodities.
PART II
The Clothing Industry
The principal materials for clothes are silk, linen, cotton, wool and
animal skins. I shall accordingly deal with them under the following
headings:
a. The Silk Industry.
b. The Linen Industry.
c. The Cotton Industry.
d. The Woolen Industry.
e. The Leather Industry.
f. The Manufacturing of Clothing Machinery.
a. The Silk Industry
Silk is a Chinese discovery and was used as a material for clothes for
many thousands of years before the Christian Era. It is one of the
important national industries of China. Up to recent times, China was
the only country that supplied silk to the world. But now this dominant
trade has been taken away from China by Japan, Italy and France,
because those countries have adopted scientific methods for silk
culture and manufacture, while China still uses the same old methods of
many thousand years ago. As the world's demand for silk is increasing
daily, the improvement of the culture and manufacture of silk will
be a very profitable undertaking. In this International Development
Scheme, I suggest first that scientific bureaus be established in every
silk district to give directions to the farmers and to provide healthy
silk-worm eggs. These bureaus should be under central control. At the
same time, they will act as collecting stations for cocoons so as to
secure a fair price for the farmers. Secondly, silk filiatures with
up-to-date machinery should be established in suitable districts to
reel the silk for home as well as for foreign consumption. And lastly,
modern factories should be put up for manufacturing silk for both home
and foreign markets. All silk filiatures and factories should be under
a single national control and will be financed with foreign capital
and supervised by experts to secure the best economic results and to
produce better and cheaper commodities.
b. The Linen Industry
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