The Study Of Interprovincial Disputes About Lake Farmland And Lake Productions In The Weishan Lake Area After The Foundation Of The New China

The disputes produced by lake farmland and lake productions in the Weishan Lake area, started after Yellow River crevasse in Xianfeng period of the late imperial of Qing Dynasty. These disputes had continued for more than 150 years, and they have not been able to be resolved thoroughly. After many times mediations of governments at all levels, until 2006, the Weishan Lake area started to be harmony. This article draws on the massive files and the local chronicle material to recount these disputes and mediatory measures of government in detail, to analyze their causes and effects. The full text is divided into five parts:The first part mainly introduces the geography survey of the Weishan Lake area and present situation of provincial boundary after all previous adjustments. The Weishan Lake area contains the rich resources, and the Weishan Lake has many kinds of functions, such as the flood discharge, the water storage, the irrigation, the shipping and so on. The Weishan Lake has provided the advantage for this local development, and laid the hidden danger to vie for advantages. After foundation of new China, the Weishan Lake area passed through all previous adjustments of administrative regionalization. The more important adjustments were in 1953, 1956, 1984, 1985, and formed the present situation of provincial boundary in the Weishan Lake area between Shandong Province and Jiangsu Province.The second part narrates the disputes produced by lake farmland and lake productions in the Weishan Lake area and mediatory measures of government in detail. The disputes in the Weishan Lake area started from Xianfeng period, the bloody battles between the Hakka (Shandong immigrant) and Punti (Jiangsu native) lasted to the end of Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China time. After the liberation, the conflicts between populaces in the lake area sometimes occurred. In order to unify the management of the Weishan Lake, the Weishan County was set up in 1953. After 1959, disputes arose out of lake farmland and lake productions occurred between the populaces along the Weishan Lake, and the scale expanded unceasingly. The State Council and all levels of leaders carried on discussions and mediations for that, and had adjusted two provinces' demarcation lines and the right of management which produced by lake farmland and lake productions for many times.The third part analyzes the influence of the disputes about lake farmland and lake productions. The disputes and conflicts expanded unceasingly, which have affected social stability of the Weishan Lake area, have hindered economical development of the Weishan Lake area, have hindered the unification management and the reasonable use of water resources, have disturbed the management of fishery administration in the Weishan Lake area, have affected the populace's communication around the lake, have made the tense atmosphere in the boundary area, and have harmed the authority of laws and regulations.The fourth part ascertains the reason that the disputes in Weishan Lake area were difficult to handle for ages. The natural disasters were high frequency in the Weishan Lake area, which caused poverty and lack of resources. Local populaces' source of income is unitary. Partial cadres at grass-roots level had the wrong idea when they mediate disputes. Some psychological factors, such as the consciousness of small farmer, the notion of native land, the hostile moods, the social style and the folk customs and so on, affected the disputes' solution. Some questions appeared in the process of law enforcement are one of reasons that disputes were difficult to settle thoroughly. The fifth part narrates the disputes' solution in the Weishan Lake area. For so many years, cadres and populaces started to transform the idea and constructed the harmonious boundary finally. The public security organs in two places broke through the solid ice first, and established the united defense mechanism with communication and cooperation. The governments in two places also started to exchange and cooperation. They eliminated the carry-overs, implemented The Big Mediation Mechanism, intensified propaganda and education, and established the persistent effect mechanism to remain stable. They also strived to change sole income in the rural economy, reduced the populaces' dependence to lake farmland and lake productions. Populaces also started the folk intercourse, and established the friendly relation and consolidated unceasingly.