Commercial press geography of China . hese waterways are mostuseful, helping agriculture by irrigation, and commerce byfurnishing province has a numberof lakes, the chief of whichare Tai Hu in the southandHungtze Hu (^p?Sa)on the border between An-hwei (^iS:^) and Kiang-peh(a:;||:). Kiangsu suffered great- ^^^ Silk ly in the Taiping Rebellion, but during the fifty years that havesince gone by has recovered its former wealth and population. South of the Yangtse, the garden plain of Kiangnan (tE^)produces great supplies of rice, silk and cotton. The soil isvery fertile and is wel
Commercial press geography of China . hese waterways are mostuseful, helping agriculture by irrigation, and commerce byfurnishing province has a numberof lakes, the chief of whichare Tai Hu in the southandHungtze Hu (^p?Sa)on the border between An-hwei (^iS:^) and Kiang-peh(a:;||:). Kiangsu suffered great- ^^^ Silk ly in the Taiping Rebellion, but during the fifty years that havesince gone by has recovered its former wealth and population. South of the Yangtse, the garden plain of Kiangnan (tE^)produces great supplies of rice, silk and cotton. The soil isvery fertile and is well irrigated by the branches of the Yangtse,the Grand Canal, and the Whangpoo (^J^). The Shanghai-Nanking Railway (tl W ® K5) runs across this productive beltto the northwest, and the Shanghai-Hangchow line (M tt @ ^)to the southwest. North of the river are the plains of Kiangpeh. Kiangpehhas many waterways, but they do not help agriculture andcommerce so much as those of Kiangnan. The farmers ofKiangpeh raise wheat, rice and THE PROVINCE OF KIANGSU 21 y>%^f iM^/W,^
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