CHEMICAL INDUSTRY IN KWANG- 

 TUNG PROVINCE 



YAN TSZ OHIU. 



An eminent authority says that the measure of a 

 country's appreciation of the value of chemistry in its mater- 

 ial development, and the extent to which it utilizes this 

 science in its industries, generally measures quite accurately 

 the industrial progress and prosperity of that country. 



Chemical industry is one of the most important in- 

 dustries. No civilized country can get along without it. 

 The demand for it is so great that sooner or later it has 

 to be built up. 



In some countries, the chemical industry is so extensive 

 that they not only manufacture their own chemical sub- 

 stances, but also make them for other countries. 



In China, chemical industry has made little progress and 

 she has to depend upon other nations for her supply of 

 chemical products. 



The province of Kwangtung sends more students, mer- 

 chants and laborers to other countries than any other pro- 

 vince in China. Seeing the excellent chemical products in 

 foreign countries, they feel the need of importing these 

 articles to Kwangtung. The following is a list of some of 

 the common things which are the products of foreign chem- 

 ical industry: 



They are glass, pigments, paints and varnish, fertilizers, 

 dyes, alcohol, camphor, rubber, chloroform, drugs, soap, 

 perfumes, wines, paper, photographic supplies, leather, etc. 

 These were first imported into Kwangtung when people knew 



their uses. . . , . 



But before the introduction of foreign articles into tins 

 country, some of the people here discovered certain crude 

 methods of making some chemical products. They found 

 these out by simple experiment: Soon a small chemical 

 industry was formed. It developed very slowly until recent 

 years when foreign methods of making these articles came 

 into use and factories to manufacture the chemical products 

 which are new to our people were established. So we can 

 divide the chemical industry in Kwangtung into two classes. 



