NANNING, a treaty port in the province of Kwangsi, south China (22° 48' N., and io8° 15' E.), and recently created capital of the province, is situated about 3o miles below the junction of the two branches (Tso-kiang and Yu-kiang) of the south (main) stream of the West River, and about 470 miles above Canton.
Nanning was voluntarily opened to foreign trade by China in 1907 to offset French influence at Lungchow, a Treaty port near the Tongking frontier. It is the highest accessible point for steamers on the West River, but the river between Wuchow and Nanning during winter suffers from lack of water so that trade is seriously affected. Numerous small competitive river vessels run between Wuchow and Nanning. Its economic orientation is towards the Canton delta by the natural route of the Si-kiang, rather than towards the nearer Red River delta of Tongking. The construction, however, of the projected railway from Canton. via Nanning, to connect with the Tongking railway system at Langson (the present terminus) may have the effect of diverting some of the trade of Nanning into Tongking; or again, the con struction of a railway may draw much of it to Pakhoi on the Gulf of Tongking, the nearest outlet by sea to Nanning.
The value of the whole trade in 1924 was as follows :—net foreign imports 2,758.547, net Chinese imports 1,824,497, exports 2,040.392; total Hk Taels. The trade of the port in 1926 suffered as a result of the Hongkong boycott. The chief imports of Nanning, to be distributed in W. Kwangsi, and ad
jacent Yunnan and Tongking, are cotton piece goods, kerosene, clothing, matches, straw mats, while exports comprise chiefly aniseed, beans, hides, groundnut cake, medicines, and antimony (the export of which increased greatly during the World War). Nanning is a collecting and distributing centre for a considerable area further west. Two main channels serve this trade—the Yu-kiang which is navigable for large junks during the summer flood season as far as Pose-ting (whence a road leads up to the high plateau of Ytinnan), and the Tso-kiang which is navigable for large junks and small launches as far as the Treaty port of Lungchow, close to the Tongking border.
The population of the port of Nanning as returned for 1926 by the Chinese Maritime Customs is 65,800.
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