European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse S3 rail travel below would be ticket purchasers Battle for position at train station ticket Wistow. Travellers make the Best of overcrowded trains. Bul everything was sold Chang Hua said. Try government has called for reforms in rail administration following live train accidents thai killed a local of 169 people this year Bui in arc arc no prospects Tor relieving the crowding poor sanitation and he Kcal hassles. Passengers surprisingly uncomplaining say in is simply pail of China s backward condition. They make the Besl of it Wilh a Loady Stream of conversation and food. The Iran slopped More Ollyn Ihan the Ca Henrj the Small son of Ono Lanzhou recline by worker put away a whole Chicken dumplings noodles Rice apples cookies peanuts dried Melon seeds a Popsicle and Candy Wilhour apparent stomach ache As his party got Oil did train in Lanzhou they were dealing where to Rio for dinner. A reporter Kathy Wilhelm recently spent neatly 100 hours travelling on chinese trains mostly m hard Seal carnage Agency reported that combined Trade in the Border provinces of Heilongjiang and Xin Jiang had nil $707 million in the firs i Hall of 1s88. Or Aboul 800 percent above their total for Allol 1987, after iwo decades of tense relations China and the soviet Union started trading again in Iho Early 1980s it began with barter. This year is expanded 1o include purchases with curency from a third country usually american dollars and i to expo re of chinese labor to Tho soviet Union in a further twist chinese of Licals in Heilongjiang said privately they expect soviet technical advisers to return soon to China. "1n Tho 1950s, we traded because to were friends said Xing Weihao an offal in Hailong Jiang s Bureau of foreign Trade now we do it because we Nood to that is a healthy development " chinese officials say Labdor Niport could become i he most Impi land Par of Smo soviet Trade. Several said that China could easily Supply Iho manpower 1o develop Siberia in ils report aug 29, Xinhua said about 10,000 chinese workers were expected to head to the Soviel Union Over the next year for construction and farming labor Export began in july when More than 100 chinese construction workers went to Zabai Kalsky to build a gymnasium several dormitories and a dining Hall earlier in the year 77 chinese peasants were Given 1,071 acres to grow cucumbers and watermelons in the soviet Union North of Vladivostok across the Border from Sui Fence another important trading Post we gave the russians Hall and then sold them the rest said a chinese official in Harbin who worked on october 29,1988 Tho contract. We re looking at it As a Model for of Lufe deals. Ii makes perfect sense because we Hove a huge work Force and Thoy have a lol of for their part soviet officials in Lanzhou i said they were interested in China or ils consumer goods and food oar agriculture and our Light Industry arc said a Soviel businessman who spoke on condition of anonymity. China Lor us is like a big supermarket their Lulf is generally Good and in the Early 1950s, the soviet Union Scal thousands of soviet technical advisors to China to help set up factories. But relations soured in Iho late 1950s As China embraced a development Model that emphasized people Over machines radically different from the soviet plan. By 1962, All soviet advisors had left China several years later As China moved farther loll in ils cultural revolution firelight broke Oul periodically along the bolder in 1969, soviet and chinese troops fought pitched Battles on Daman svy Island or Zhen Bao m chinese on fhe us Sun River clashes spread to inner Mongolia at night gunshots would Echo All around Tho Valley said Wen he a 59 year old Railroad worker who sen his three sons South Lor a year to protect them in the daytime their jets and ours would Fly above he town. We wore All sealed " ties Bogan improving slowly in the late 1970s, after Deng Xiaoping took Power and instituted a series of reforms of open China to Tho Wisl. They have improved further since Mikhail s Gorbachev became soviet communist parly chief in 1985 and Bogan to Reform his country. Now All you hear Al night in Manz Houli Are Irain whistles said Guan Lanchang a s4-year-old Coal Miner As he strolled to his House on a blurt overlooking Iho Hills of Siberia. It is very peaceful " economic relations have not proceeded Wilhour glitches. The chinese complain that Tho soviets Giva them Only their worst Limber and charge that soviet business practices Are not flex Sale enough. Tho soviets accuse the chinese of Iryma to Cheal them. They also complain that China s poor railways and Road network Are hampering Frade growth. Soviet officials have provided Somo help to Iho chinese transportation system floating Beijing a s180-Millton loan earlier this year to recommence work on a railway to conned China s far West to soviet Central Asia Bolh countries have moved to Lurther relat Trade restrictions. Asol aug 13. The two countries dropped visa for businessmen More Border for adm posts have opened and in july China announced that local governments not Only those in Border provinces would be allowed to Cut deals with their Soviel counterparts. From Hal Pool on in a been very Busy in said Xue Huiyuan. Vice chairman of Lanzhou a s committee Foi foreign Trade everyone is coming Here to 1alk to the soviets our hotels Are packed. We re a hoi spot which is kind of Odd Lor such a Little town " the stars and stripes Page 15
