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“...CONTENTS.
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Currency ..................................................................................................................................................................4
Weights and measures ..............................................................................................................................4
Population and products .......................................................................................4
Net value of trade ..........................................................................................................................................,F>
„ „ for past five years (table)........................................................................6
Foreign imports ................................................................................................................................................6
Opium ...............................................................................................................”
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“...4
Currency.
Maximum Minimum Average
Value. Value. Value.
s. d. s. d. s. d.
1 Haikuan tael 2 10 * 2 6| 2 8rV
1 Mexican dol. 1 Hi 1 8 1 9#
Population.
Area. | Popula- tion. Products.
Prefectures— Miles.
Tengchow-fu 5,700 3,000,000 Mineral, cereals, silk and pongee
Ch'ingchou-fu ... 10,300 4,600,000 Silk, cutlery, basket work
Laiohou-fu 5,200 2,100,000 Straw braid, raw silk, pongee, marble, soapstone
Towns—
Chefoo...... ... 80,000 to Cereals, fruit, pongee, raw silk, lace
90,000
Ping Tu...... ... • >• Wheat, bean oil, bean cake, straw
braid
Wei-hsien 100,000 Wheat, beans, millet, coal, straw braid
Ninghaichou ... Vermicelli, silk pongee
Huang-hsien ... Vermicelli
Weights and Measures,
Weight—
12 liang (ounce) .. = 1 chin (catty) = 1£ lbs.
100 chin (catty) .. 1 tan (picul) 133$ lbs.
Long measures—
10 tsun (inch) 1 ch'ih (foot) 14-1 inches
10 ch'ih (foot) 1 chang 11J feet
Land measure—■
10 fen 1 mou (acre) 26 -73 square poles
100 mou ... 1 ch'ing 16-7 acres...”
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“... namely, the expansion of Tsingtau,
the opening of the Chinanfu (Tsinan) Railway and the competition of
Dalny in the Manchurian -market. These factors must, however, be
borne in mind in judging the trade of Chefoo at present, and therefore
the year's trade of 1910, although it compares so unfavourably with
that of 1909, afid can scarcely be called satisfactory, may yet be held
to have maintained the average of the past few years.
The net value of the trade in 1910 was 30,195,783 Haikuan taels,
equivalent, at 2s. 8-fed., the average Haikuan tael value for the year,
to 4,135,4222. The heavy decline from the level reached in 1909 was
fairly evenly distributed, being on the whole most marked with regard,
to native imports.
(616)...”
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“...taels. £ Hk. taels. £
1906 14,709,778 2.420,984 7,977,090 1,312,896
1907 10,630,697 1,727,488 7,296,744 1,185,721
1908 9,887,640 1,318,352 6,961,319 928,176
1909 9,900,270 1,289,098 10,333,515 1,345,450
1910 8,048,814 1,083,655 7,415,345 1,068,368
Year. Exports (Local Origin). Total. Value of Hk. Tael.
Hk. taels. £ Hk. taels. £ s. d.
1906 ... 11,963,399 1,968,976 34,740,267 5,717,770 3 3£
1907 ... 10,719,072 1,741,849 28,646,513 4,655,058 3 3
1908 ... 11,136,403 1,484,853 27,985,362 3,731,381 2 8
1909 ... 18,243,071 2,375,459 38,476,856 5,010,007 2 7J
1910 ... 14,731,624 1,983,399 30,195,783 4,135,422 2 8ft
Foreign imports.—It will be seen that there was a decrease of some
20 per cent, in the total value of the net foreign imports. The chief
factor in this was the marked diminution in opium imports; with
this exception, the decrease seems to be fairly evenly distributed among
such articles as shared in it at all.
Opium.—Imports show a very heavy decline of some 80 per cent.
The total...”
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“...success
was started, towards the end of the year, in the exportation of the
native tobacco of the province, chiefly to Hankow, whence it is
re-imported in the form of these cheaper cigarettes now so largely
consumed by the Chinese. I understand that a large quantity of
this tobacco has already been thus exported—over 70,000 lbs. up to
the end of the year—'and that, if the plan appears likely to be
successful, special attention will be devoted to this new field of
business.
Exports.—The total value of these was some 15 to 20 per cent,
less than in 1909. The chief articles showing a diminished export
were pongees and raw silk, while there was a marked fallirig-off
in the less valuable commodities of bean cake, rush mats and straw
braid.
Pongees.—The decline in exports may be attributed to several
causes. One of these was the large stocks bought in anticipation of
the new duty in France ; another, the ill-advised action of the Chinese
in supplying goods of inferior quality or of reduced lengths...”
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“...CIIEFOO. 11
Table 1 (A).—Total Value of Foreign Goods Imported into Chefoo
direct from Foreign Countries during the Years 1908-10.
Country. 1908. 1909. 1910.
United Kingdom Hong-Kong ... Canada Other British possessions ... £ 14,852 205,490 21 670 £ 19,887 220,402 716 £ 23,633 182,992 14 75
Total, British possessions ... Japan and Formosa... United States and Hawaii ... Korea... Russia (Pacific ports) Germany Franoe Other countries 221,033 340,236 110,252 14,370 98,808 3,206 1,798 34,648 241,005 366,904 151,104 17,658 20,448 4,948 510 16,145 206,714 347,280 85,579 43,229 7,469 4,904 2,538 13,567
Grand total ... 824,351 818,722 711,280
(B).—Return of Principal Foreign Articles of Import into Chefoo
during the Years 1908-10.
Articles. 1908. 1909. 1910. -
Opium—
Indian... ... Lbs. 32,692 100,933 17,089
£ 23,303 69,905 28.010
Native ... Lbs. 931 190,190 19,817
£ 313 122,653 19,407
Cotton goods—
Shirtings, grey, plain—
British Pieces 39,232 31,916 27,291
American...”
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“...Years 1908-10—continued.
Articles. 1908. 1909. 1910.
Sundries—continued. Paper............Cwts. Pepper, black ... ... ,, Seaweed ... ... ... ,, Soda ash ... ... ... ,, Sugar— Brown ... ... ... ,, Candy ... ... ... ,, Refined ... ... ... ,, White ......... „ Coal, Japanese ... ... Tons 8,062 2,590 51,746 31,085 106,546 11,194 34,190 60,431 95,264 10,868 1,187 47,676 39,609 97,638 11,771 57,564 59,936 80,047 11,905 1,424 16,243 35,992 95,038 9,261 38,443 50,337 82,847
Table 2 (A).—Total Value of all Exports from Chefoo direct to Foreign Countries during the Years 1908-10.
Country. 1908. 1909. 1910.
United Kingdom Hong-Kong............ Other British possessions ...... £ 395 187,266 259 £ 772 237,475 418 £ 2,877 323,846
Total, British possessions ... Korea............... Russia (Pacific ports) Japan and Formosa... Germany ...... United States and Hawaii ... France Other foreign countries 187,920 101,896 144,608 48,630 46 132 16 32 238,665 135,551 105,229 63,285 180 40 47...”
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