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... Huai . The river traffic on the Huai made Pang - pu the natural collecting centre for the agricultural produce , especially grain , cotton , peanuts ( groundnuts ) , and soya beans , from much of northern Anhwei . Pang - pu's impor ...
... Huai . The river traffic on the Huai made Pang - pu the natural collecting centre for the agricultural produce , especially grain , cotton , peanuts ( groundnuts ) , and soya beans , from much of northern Anhwei . Pang - pu's impor ...
Page 258
... HUAI ( b . c . 1898 , Hsiangt'an , Hunan province , China- d . Nov. 29 , 1974 , Peking ) , military leader , one of the greatest in Chinese communist history , and minister of national defense of China from 1954 until 1959 , when he was ...
... HUAI ( b . c . 1898 , Hsiangt'an , Hunan province , China- d . Nov. 29 , 1974 , Peking ) , military leader , one of the greatest in Chinese communist history , and minister of national defense of China from 1954 until 1959 , when he was ...
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... Huai River , and thus via the old - established Shan- yang Canal to the Yangtze River at Yang- chou , in Kiangsu . The terrain in the region is so flat and the drainage system so imperma- nent that no major engineering works were ...
... Huai River , and thus via the old - established Shan- yang Canal to the Yangtze River at Yang- chou , in Kiangsu . The terrain in the region is so flat and the drainage system so imperma- nent that no major engineering works were ...
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