Renewal of Transit Trade of Tea with the Chinese Province of Zinjiang in the Middle of the 20-sof the XX Century

The author of the article pays the main attention to the problems and perspectives of therenewal of transit trade of tea between the USSR and the Chinese province of Zinjiang in the middle of the 20-s of the XX century. Thepositions of the USSR structures concerned, of the merchants and the authorities of the Chinese province of Zinjiang are highlighted. As aresult the conclusion that most of the parties concerned spoke for the positive decision of the problem of allowing the transit of tea fromChina through the territory of the USSR and organizing of a mixed joint-stock company. But the idea of transit of tea and organizing a jointstockcompany in the first half of 1925 was not fulfilled into practice because of the aggravation of a political situation in the region in May,1925. Therefore it was impossible to restore the transit of tea as one of the means of the influence on the strengthening of trade, economicand political positions of the USSR in the province of Zinjiang during this period. Discussions on this issue both within the interestedstructures of the USSR and the representatives of the China continued later.

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