Huludao

…up a new port at Huludao, on the coast southwest of Jinzhou. The port was still incomplete, however, when the Japanese seized Manchuria in 1931. Under Japanese rule, Huludao became a coal export port. The Japanese also discovered molybdenum in the area and constructed a refinery at Huludao in 1941–42,…

…Japanese lines and terminate at Huludao, a port which the Chinese were developing. Zhang Xueliang, Zhang Zuolin’s son and the ruler of Manchuria after his father’s murder by Japanese officers in 1928, was increasingly disposed to ally himself with the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) and its desire to rid China of…