CHINA'S MARKETS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 89, 31 August 1912, Page 1 (Supplement)

CHINA'S MARKETS

OREAT SCOPE OFFERED. The great scope which China oilers as a market was well illustrated in a recent article which appeared in the London Financier. It is shown that the yearly importations into China amount to not less than £80,000,000, a large sum actually, but representing less than 5s per head of the population of 400,000,000. If China became an import market only on the same relative basis as •Japan, its annual buying would amount to as much as £4CW>,OOO.OOO, or about £•25,000,000 more than .those of the United Kingdom last year, although at present Great Britain heads the world as an importer. If China actually reached the British and Australian import standard, the value of merchandise landed yearly at Chinese ports would amount to the huge sum of £4,800,000,000, or more than the entire trade of the world at the present time. Such a figure is, of course, altogether outside the scope of practical commercial politics for many years to come, but is distinctly within'the scope of China's potentialities, when the character of its population is taken into consideration.