Commercial press geography of China . r Chinaneeds. The chief industries of Hongkong are cotton-spinning,sugar-refining, ship-huHding and repairing, cement-making andflour-milling. Hongkong is also a military station and navalbase. Four hundred thousand Chinese people live in Hong-kong and share its fortunes. The English wish to makeHongkong a centre of Chinese education. Kwangtung produces rice, tobacco, sugar, silk, tea, san-dalwood, medicine, ginger, and many kinds of fruit, such aslichees, pineapples, and oranges. There are stores of coal andiron, though these are not much developed. The s
Commercial press geography of China . r Chinaneeds. The chief industries of Hongkong are cotton-spinning,sugar-refining, ship-huHding and repairing, cement-making andflour-milling. Hongkong is also a military station and navalbase. Four hundred thousand Chinese people live in Hong-kong and share its fortunes. The English wish to makeHongkong a centre of Chinese education. Kwangtung produces rice, tobacco, sugar, silk, tea, san-dalwood, medicine, ginger, and many kinds of fruit, such aslichees, pineapples, and oranges. There are stores of coal andiron, though these are not much developed. The seafaring people of the coasts have a large fishingindustry. There are important art industries, such as ivory-carving,embroidery, fine weaving and porcelain-decorating. Silk, straw-matting, and cotton cloth are some of the important manu-factures. GEOGRAPHY OP CHINA KWANGSI imn^) Area 78;000 square milesCAPITAL, KWEiLIN (^^M) Kwangsi is the province of the upper Si Kiang and smallsteamers may run from Wuchow (;fg {IM J^) to Nauningfu. End View, Bridge over Pepan Kiang The trade is mainly by water, and goes mostly to Kwang-tniig. Kwangsi has mineral wealth, which as yet is un-developed. The province has been made poor by frequentpolitical troubles. On the southwest, Kwangsi touches French ti-eaty port of Lungchow (fl| j^) is the gate by which tradepasses across the border. Wuchow, the treaty port lying where the AVest River meetsthe Kwei River (M 01), is the eastern gate of Kwangsi. LikeHankow (91 P) on the Yangtse, so Wuchow on the Si Kiangis a port where rivers meet, and where goods are changed fromfmall ships to large ones. The treaty port of Nanningfu is the most important city ontiio upper West River. THE PROVINCE OP KWANGSI 9 Kwlilin, the capital, is in the northeastern part of theprovince, on the Kwei River. It is an old walled city. Themountain and river scenery are very fine. Pinglo (^ l!| j&) is a city in forest country on the K^-eiRiver, half way betwee
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