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Wednesday, May 6, 1942.

POST-WAR GROWTH PLANNED FOR CHINA

Five-Year Industrial Program Is Part of Series to Make Nation Self-Sufficient

TO RAISE LIVING STANDARD

Factories, Mining and Power Supply Already Started on Expansion Project

By HARRISON FORMAN

Wireless to The New York Times

CHUNGKING, China, May 4 (Delayed) -- A five-year industrialization plan for post-war China is being prepared by experts of he National Resources Commission of he Ministry of Economic Affairs, according to Chien Chang-chao, the commission's Oxford-educated vice director. The full plan, which will be ready next September, is the first of a series of such industrialization plans designed to enable China to be self-sufficient in industries, mining and power supply in the post-war democratic world. 

The minimum object of this plan is to insure a solid industrial base to strengthen China's national defense and raise the general standard of living for her people by industrialization. The commission's experts anticipate that China will have enough iron and steel products by the end of five post-war years to meet most of her fundamental needs. The machinery industry is expected to be developed to such an extent by then that China will be able to make power engines, automobiles, locomotives, airplanes, steamships, spinning and weaving machines, tractors and other agricultural machinery.

China's abundant reserves of tungsten, antimony, tin and mercury, when fully developed as planned, will be able to supply her own as well as a considerable part of the world's needs. Wartime exports of these four ores paid or guaranteed more than 85 per cent of China's war debts incurred before the Lease-Lend Act came into being.

The plan calls for at least 30,000 engineers and technicians and 800,000 works to man all its factories and mines. The commission has now only 9,534 engineers and technicians and 170,000 workers. A gigantic training program has already been launched by the commission to prepare for the demands of the future.

The plan has long been out of the dream stage. It was conceived nine years ago, when the commission was known as the National Defense Planning Commission. The first three and a half years were spent in an intensive study of mineral reserves and raw materials and their potential development. In 1936, under the name of the National Resources Commission, with capital of $400,000,000, it undertook the establishment of factories and mines and laid the foundations for China's heavy industry. The outbreak of war in 1937 necessitated the removal of industrial centers from the coastal provinces and their re-establishment in the nation's undeveloped west, an undertaking requiring herculean efforts. By the end of Februray, 1942, the commission had opened 41 factories, 43 mines and 24 power stations.