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The Thrift Movement Of Saving Money For Building Up The Country In The Home Front During The War Of Resistance Against Japan

Posted on:2008-05-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X FangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360242477694Subject:China's modern history
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In 1938, the National Government moved to Chongqing and China's War of Resistance against Japan came into the deadlock stage. In order to arouse the enthusiasm of all the people of the country at participating in the War of Resistance, to get enough money to afford the large amount of military expenditure, to solve the deteriorating problem of commodity price resulted from the war and to facilitate the economic construction of the home front, the National Government launched and supervised a nationwide thrift movement of saving money for building up the country on its own which was of far-reaching influence. As a social movement that the government launched to promote the people to participate in the War of Resistance, the thrift movement has once got positive responses and won enthusiastic support from the people. The thrift movement has ever made considerable achievements as one of the important financial measures taken by the government to collect the floating capital of the society, to assist the economic construction of the home front and to solve the problem of commodity price during the War. However, since the measure coexisted with inflation all the time in the process of implementation and the government finally lost people's trust due to the compulsory saving pushed by the government, the intended purpose of the thrift movement was not reached.The paper is composed of six chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the launch of the thrift movement of saving money for building up the country from three perspectives. The first section analyzes the historical background of launching the thrift movement in terms of the domestic economy situation and the great significance that the savings had on the economy at that moment during the War of Resistance period. The second section elaborates on a series of decrees and measures for saving money issued by the National Government. The third section illustrates the establishment of domestic organs for money saving and that of savings network, which are important conditions for developing the thrift movement of saving money for building up the country nationwide, especially for launching the thrift movement in the home front.Chapter 2 introduces the concrete publicity measures the National Government taken to publicize the thrift movement. It is divided into two sections which demonstrate the thrift movement from two perspectives, i.e., making presswork and carrying out the thrift movement.Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 are the key parts of the paper and they consist of six sections. It elaborates on the promoting forms of the thrift movement of saving money for building up the country, including drawing on small amount of savings of farmers, workers and peddlers, organizing specialized savings for winning prize, holding the competitions for the thrift movement and promoting compulsory saving. Chapter 4 elaborates on carrying out foreign currency regular saving deposits, US dollars saving for building up the country and gold deposits, and launching the movement of public welfare deposits. The thrift movement of saving money for building up the country was advanced in various forms and from different point of views so that it was developed on the most extensive scale and at the deepest level.Chapter 5 lists the economic effects resulted from the thrift movement of saving money for building up the country during the War of Resistance in the form of data.Chapter 6 makes conclusions about the paper.
Keywords/Search Tags:the War of Resistance against Japan, thrift for building up the country, savings, the thrift movement of saving money for building up the country
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