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AN APPROACH TO THE DIRECTION OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF NANLING REGION

Lying on the south periphery of the middle subtropical zone, the Nanlihg region also has the characteristic of transition to south subtropical zone. This region, with complicated geological structure, and extensive mineralization, can provide rich and various biological resources, while the mineral resources arc concentrated and abundant. All of these provide the rich material foundation for the industrial development. The current industry appears as the heavyduty structure mainly based on fundamental raw material industries. The processing procedure is low with weak energy foundation, and the potentialities for the development of economic connections toward south to southeast coastal areas are great. In the exploitation of the surface and underground resources, the important sign for the development of local economy is not only the guarantee of the primary products for the demands of domestic and foreign markets, but also the develop ment of the processing industries energetically, particularly for the processing industries which based upon the products of agriculture and forestry. The role of local city-centralized industries should be brought into full play, and the district specialized production should be combined with comprehensive production. This is the main direction for the development of district industry. The rational scale and distribution of the main and supplementary sectors should be established in this region bated upon the characteristic of the resources of Nanling, the foundation of the existing industries, the place of the industries in the whole China and the requirements of social and economic development. The products of every 'industry can he divided into two parts: the products which can mainly meet the demands in the district and the products which can meet the demands of the domestic and foreign markets, such as tungsten, lead, zinc, molybdenum, bismuth, rare-earth, minerals, metal materials and their products, manganese, high-grade iron ore, sulphur iron ore, fluorite and their products, timber and its products, sugar, cigarette, can, local products and their processing products. All of these are products with superiority. Priority should be given to the development of these products, thus, every district in the region will depend upon main cities, and the industrial bases of various characteristics can be formed gradually.