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TRADE OF AMOY (1879).
Imports.
2,850,000
Exports.
STATISTICAL TABLES.
1,840,000
Sugar exported (1880), 18,000 tons.
vessels of 892,000 tons.
Shipping (1879) . 1,540
Of which British . 1,060 720,000
Emigrants from Amoy (1879), 20,512
Immigrants to 20,067
TRADE OF SWATOW (1879).
Exchanges, 5,482,000.
Shipping, 566,250 tons.
TRADE OF CANTON (1879).
Imports.
Exports.
2,560,000
4,452,000
Of which British about 65 per cent.
SHIPPING OF WHAMPOA (1879).
Vessels. Tonnage.
British, 1,459 . . 1,451,750
Total 1,892 . . 1,664,000
TRADE OF PAKHOI (1880),
370,000.
TRADE OF KIUNGCHEW (HAINAN).
Imports (1879).
Exports (1879).
282,000 188,000
Shipping (1880), 212,724 tons.
TRADB OF TAIWAN, FORMOSA (1879).
Imports. Exports.
493,000
586,000
Shipping, 104,375 tons.
TRADE OF TAMSHUI, FORMOSA (1880),
1,074,000.
Shipping (1879), 294 vessels of 88,828 tons.
Tea exported (1880), 14,625,000 tons.
SHIPPING OF HONG KONG (1879), 4,000,000 tons.
TRADE OF MACAO (1878), 500,000.
Tea exported (1878), 252,000.
Receipts from the lotteries and gambling-houses,
81,000.
IMPERIAL BUDGET OF CHINA (1876).
Land tax 5,630,000
Grain and fodder tax .... 4,100,000
Likin, or local charges on merchandise . 6,260,000
Foreign customs 4,690,000
Salt tax 1,564,000
Sale of public offices, &c. . . . 2,180,000
Sundries 438,000
Total Revenue . 24,862,000
PUBLIC DEBT (1878), 2,232,000.
ARMY.
Manchu Regulars . . . . . 270,000
Chinese Militia, &c. .
Tibet Proper
Kuku-Nor and Tsaidam
TIBET.
. 800,000
Total . 1,070,000
Area in
square miles.
. 650,000
120,000
Estimated
population.
6,000,000
150,000
CHIEF TOWNS,
Estimated
Population.*
Lassa 15,000
Shiga-tze and Tashi-lumpo
Chetang
13,000
Gyanze
12,000
Chona-jong ...... 6,000
Kirong
4,000
Shakia-jong...... 3,000
. . . 14,000
TRADE OF TIBET WITH INDIA (1879).
Exports to India .... 150,000
Imports from India .... 14,600
Annual import of brick tea from China, 350,000.
KASHGARIA, OR CHINESE TURKESTAN.
Area in square miles.
250,000
Population.
1,000,000
Tarkan
Kashgar
CHIEF Towxs.
. . . . 60,000 .... 50,000
Khotan 40,000
Sanju . . . . . 35,000
Aksu 20,000
Kiria 15,000
Yangi-hissar .... 10,000
Yargalik .... 10,000
Korla 6,000
MONGOLIA.
Area in
square miles.
Outer Mongolia
j 1)350i000
Inner Mongolia
( 2,'
) ( Estimated
Population.
2,000,000
2,'000,000