Chinese Currency and Finance

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The main industry of the Republic is agriculture, with vegetation varying from subarctic to tropic, but within its 35 degrees of lati tude and 60 degrees of longitude China possesses mineral wealth of every kind to an unknown amount, timber and other resources to a substantial degree in certain Provinces, and in general all the essen tial elements Of a great industrial country, of which not the least is a vast, industrious, frugal, and virile population.