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
The household utilities are water, light, heat, fuel and telephones.
Except in treaty ports, there is no water-supply system in any of the
cities and towns of China. Even many treaty ports possess none as yet.
In all the large cities, the people obtain their water from rivers
which at the same time act as sewage. The water supply of the large
cities and towns in China is most unsanitary, (1) It is an urgent
necessity that water supply systems should be installed in all cities
and towns in China without delay. Therefore special factories for
equipping the water system should be established in order to meet the
needs. (2) Lighting plants should be installed in all the cities and
towns in China. So factories for the manufacture of the machinery
lighting plants should be established. (3) Modern heating plants
should be installed in every household, using either electricity, gas,
or steam. So the manufacturing of heating equipment is a necessity.
Factories should be established for this purpose. (4) Cooking fuel is
one of the most costly items in the daily needs of the Chinese people.
In the country the people generally devote ten per pent of their
working time to gathering firewoods. In town the people spend about
twenty per cent of their living expenses for firewood alone. Thus this
firewood question accumulates into a great national waste. The firewood
and grass as a cooking fuel must be substituted by coal in the country
districts, and by gas or electricity in towns and cities. In order to
use coal gas and electricity, proper equipment must be provided. So
factories for the manufacturing of coal gas, and electricity, stoves
for every family must be established by this International Development
Organization. (5) Telephones must also be supplied to every family in
the cities as well as in the country. So factories for manufacturing
the equipment must be put up in China, in order to render them as cheap
as possible.
PART IV
The Motoring Industry
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