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Includes: National People’s Congress lays down the economic plan reaffirming top priority to agriculture with 'Adjustment ' the key word Commentary on trade, the internal economy and the Canton [Guangzhou] Fair. The Foreign Trade of China. No officials figures issued since 1959, the first of three years of adverse harvests and decreasing trade. Figures for the years 1958 to 1961. Trade with Communist Countries. Decreasing proportion. Figures for trade with the USSR for the years 1958 to 1961 showing decrease in Machinery imports. Repayment of outstanding debts. Detailed breakdown of Sino-Soviet trade for 1961 in Bulletin No. 192 of October 1962. Figures for Eastern bloc trade with China for the years 1959 to 1962 and commentary. Trade with Other Countries. Increased Sino-Japanese trade, purchase of cereals. The Balance of Trade. Effect of repayments to the USSR and purchases of cereals. Trade Agreements. Industry. Concentration of heavy and light industry on meeting the needs of agriculture. Output of fertilizers and petroleum and tractors. Formation of Scientific Societies. Negotiations for the purchase of a Vinylon plant from Japan. Report on the mineral resources of China in Bulletin No. 189 of June 1962. Agriculture. Food production. Policy for the mechanisation of farm work. Needs of tractors and pumps. Production teams become the basic accounting unit, encouragement of side-line occupations. Release of surplus industrial land. Imports of fertilizers for the years 1957 to 1962. Domestic Affairs. Transport and Communications. Opening of Peking [Beijing]/Ulan Bator through traffic and of the Lhasa Chengtu highway. Domestic airlines. New Tanku wharf. Shipbuilding and purchases. Trade Between China and the United Kingdom. Figures for selected years from 1954 to 1962. Breakdown by main groups of exports and imports for the years 1960 to 1962, with commentary. Silver. Visits. Eight technical missions arrive. Visit by Lu Hsu-Chang, Vice-Minister of Foreign Trade. Dr Chi Chao-Ting passes through. Four members of the Royal Society visit China. Hong Kong. Trade with China for the Years 1958 to 1962. Importance to China as a source of foreign currency. Formosa. Trade with the United kingdom for the years 1960 to 1962. Economic growth, industrial development, agriculture, fisheries and forestry production. The Association. Representation on quota levels. Canton [Guangzhou] Fair arrangements. The Birmingham m Chamber form a Far East Section. The Sino British Trade Council. Arrangements for small exhibitions in China. Meeting with Vice-Minister Lu Hsu-Chang. Appendix. Figures for Free World trade with China for the years 1961 and 1962. Chronological Summary for 15th June 1962 to 18th December 1962, includes-Meeting of Chinese and US Ambassadors. Peking [Beijing] alleges intrusion by Indian troops in Sinkiang and West Tibet. Influx of immigrants to Hongkong from Kwangtung. Adverse weather conditions in China. India alleges intrusion of Chinese troops in Ladakh. Fighting breaks out on the McMahon line. The Chinese Communist Party Central Committee announces changes in leadership. Amendments to the embargo list China announces withdrawal from line of conflict.
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