WSP09509

• File Number: 8027
• Description: Section D General Correspondence - Federal Agencies - BOR - Senate Comm Interior-Insular Affairs
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 12/20/1957
• Author: Interior-Insular Aff
• Title: Relationships of River and Related Water Resource Development Programs of United States-Soviet Russia-and Red China - Memorandum of the Chairman
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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petitive world. It is cited as basic to the political philosophy of the
Communist leadership and in accord with "the demands or the people"
which is usually followed by such phraseology as "due to the wise
and correct leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and the great
leader of the Chinese people, Chairman Mao- Tse- Tung and also due
to the high enthusiasm of the masses in developing production since
liberation." After a briefin~ in Pekin to Konwar Sain and K. L.
Rao, experienced Indian engmeers, Director Hao, Minister of Water
Conservation, concluded a long recital with the statement:
In short, it is due to the superiority of the People's Democratic System and
the inexhaustible power of the liberated people of China that we can gain
such a great success in the water-conservancy fields.
(Parenthetically it might be added as an interesting political ob-
servation on Hoa's experience in the "water conservancy field" which
he discusses is extensive although his views regarding "the Superiority
of the People's Democratic System" appear to have undergone ex-
tensive reVIsion in the past 12 years. He is identified by the CIA
as the same Hoa who in 1944 as an official of the Chinese Natural
Resources Commission, then dominated by Chiang Kai-shek, showed
up in Washington and handed this reporter a check on a New York
bank for $500,000 to obtain some contract engineering services from
the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation in planning the development or
the Yangtze River, China's greatest stream. Under State Depart-
ment supervision and encouragement the task was undertaken but
on the fall of Nationalist government the contract was suspended
and the work liquidated. How Hoa now emerges embracing an op-
posite political philosophy is unknown to this reporter who assumes
the metamorphosis was accomplished as a matter of social security,
as is not uncommon among technicians. )

MULTIPLE-PURPOSE, BASINWIDE

All river development in China is on a multiple-purpose, basinwide
foundation calling for eventual realization of full potential benefits.
Inadequacy of technical and experienced engineering personnel for
the present program, and incompleteness of essential data is con-
fessed-and blamed on previous administrations. Also, this short-
'Coming is reported as being overcome by more recent establishment of
an extensive network of technical institutions, colleges, universities,
and other schooling where essential talent is trained at public expense.
Meanwhile, the Chinese Communists look to the Russian Communists
for technical guidance on river-development planning, design, or
construction. Soviet teclmicians are present in quantity and the
Chinese Government and engineers gratefully and freely-and re-
peatedly-acknowledge their help.

WOMAN IN KEY POSITION

A Miss Chien Chen Ying, a middle-aged lady who distinguished
herself in the construction of the J enhochi regulator across the Huai
River in China, is in the key position with the most enormous staff
in the Central Ministry of Water Conservancy. She is the vice
minister in charge of design and construction. She is not only served