Commercial press geography of China . WAN 37 thro ugh, the mountainous western region and becomes navigableafter passing Suifu (^ jt| ^) Szechwan produces a great amount of silk, tea, salt andvegetable wax. Other products are rice, hemp, indigo, timber. There are coal mines at Kiangpehting (XL ^t M) >near Chungking{MMM)- Oe- [posits of iron, cup-per, petroleum andprecious metals areknown to exist. It is hard tobring the productsof Szechwan toother provinces be-cause of difficultyof passagethrough the Yang-tse Gorges is sotroublesome anddangerous as tohinder comm
Commercial press geography of China . WAN 37 thro ugh, the mountainous western region and becomes navigableafter passing Suifu (^ jt| ^) Szechwan produces a great amount of silk, tea, salt andvegetable wax. Other products are rice, hemp, indigo, timber. There are coal mines at Kiangpehting (XL ^t M) >near Chungking{MMM)- Oe- [posits of iron, cup-per, petroleum andprecious metals areknown to exist. It is hard tobring the productsof Szechwan toother provinces be-cause of difficultyof passagethrough the Yang-tse Gorges is sotroublesome anddangerous as tohinder the Ghwan-Han Railway {)\\ Igl^l^) is built,Chengtu will bein close touch with Hankow, and Szechwan will have muchmore trade. In western Szechwan, in the mountainous borderland l^e-tween China and Tibet, live wild tribes whose cmtoms are notlike those of the Chinese people. Chengtu, the capital, has half a million people. It \k ahistoric city lying in the Red River Basin. The country rowndabout is remarkably well Oil Caekiehs, West <TtraA 88 GEOGRAPHY OF CHINA Chungking, the treaty port of Szechwan, is a great tradingcentre. Suifu is the last point on the great river which can bereached by boats, From Suifu to Wanhsien (H m), ships caneasily sail on the river, but east of Wanhsien are the famousgorges with rapids which are very hard for boats to pass. Szechwan was formerly a great producer of opium, but, nowthat opium-growing is being suppressed, much more rice isgrown in Szechwan.
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