The Research On YAN Xishan's Policy Of Opening Up Wasteland In West Sui

The article has wholly and objectively discussed the process of opening up wasteland in west of Suiyuan from 1932 to 1937, and social effectuation what this historical event brought about. The thesis generalizes the historical process of opening up wasteland in West Sui clearly, analysis the effectiveness of this historical event. On this basis, the article judges the active role in history that this historical event plays and negative impact what this historical event brought about. The article highlights the theory induction, the historical demonstration, statistical analysis and comparative analysis in the research, and adopts the basic principle of "theory based on history".There are 7 chapters in the article. The first chapter is introduction, the main text is composed of chapter 2,chapter 3,chapter 4,chapter 5,chapter 6, and chapter 7 is the conclusion.The introduction introduces the significance of selected topics, predecessors'studies, the basic content and structure, framework and methods of analysis. Opening up wasteland was always adopted by the previous rulers to handle borderland since it came forth. And because it was closely linked to the agricultural production, farsighted rules paid attention to it. For this reason, the researches on opening up wasteland were always hot. But the researches on opening up wasteland did not involve reclamation and cultivation in west of Suiyuan. And the papers about YAN Xishan did not pay attention to the study of reclamation and cultivation in west of Suiyuan. This article studies the background, process, result, effectiveness, impact and the role of reclamation and cultivation in west of Suiyuan comprehensively and systematically to evaluate this historical event appropriately and objectively. And this thesis attempts to make up for inadequate study about this issue, enriches the researches on Inner Mongolia and reclamation and cultivation.First, the main text analyzes the historical background of reclamation and cultivation in west of Suiyuan. Secondly, the thesis introduces the organization and management during reclamation and cultivation in West Sui, including land management, the organization structure, organization and management systems. Thirdly, the thesis analyses achievements during opening up wasteland, main achievements were the management and development of agriculture,forestry,animal husbandry, other achievements included economic and trade activities, the implementation of water and construction of transportation, cultural and health undertakings, the establishment of settlements and village. At last, the thesis assesses the history event objectively and comprehensively. In the end the thesis proposes basic conclusions and issues to be studied in depth.The article holds that "opening up West Sui" emerged with certain historical conditions. Firstly, advantageous natural conditions and the long history of West Sui provided the conditions for this event; West Sui and Shanxi Province can not be separated in the aspects of political and economy, which is facilitating factors; secondly, KMT government always carried out reclamation and cultivation in Inner Mongolia, which supported for this event; thirdly, "production for saving country" claimed by YAN Xishan brought about this event; fourth, this event was a positive response to the military policy of reorganizing and discharging surplus soldier; fifth, this event was a response to strengthen the northwest border, against Japan. So, this event emerged with complicated historical background, which was natural condition, complex political and economic background.In fact, this event had brought temporary prosperity to the West Sui. When the army came to West Sui in 1932, they opened out the land, built proving ground, planted crops for test, introduced new farm machinery, improved breed; set up agricultural training agency, taught troops agricultural knowledge and skills; established cooperation institutes to prospered rural economy; excavated channels; constructed roads, established schools and hospitals; created new villages. Especially, they appeased public safety, eliminated bandits, stabilized social order. According to these factors, this event had positive significance. In addition, this event had an active role in exchange and integration between nomadic civilization and farming civilization.On the other hand, because of the impact of international and domestic situations, this event had a lot of limitations. First, as for motivation, at the beginning this event was planed to reorganize and discharge surplus personnel to preserve military power; secondly, as for the organization, without promoting national unity policy, the action that preyed Inner Mongolia people emerged; thirdly, as for the results, due to the impact of the Japanese invasion of China, part of achievements did not be consolidated; fourth, as for the impact, as a result of cultivation excessively, this event aggravated desertification of West Sui, worsening local ecological environment.