A Study About The Problem Of The Banditry In The Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region During The Anti-Japanese War

There was a lot of banditry in Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region in the Republic of China period. Their appearance had many historical reasons. After the Central Red Army arrived here, the banditry disappeared for Military strike by the Central Red Army。But after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the disappeared bandits had become active again; they keep burning, killing everywhere and killing people and government Staff of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. These not only brought the Border Region a grave threat to the personal and property safety, but also a serious threat to social stability in Central Border Region.The disappeared bandits become active again for lots reasons: First, the special Human Geography of the Border Region created the conditions for the banditry. The Border Region is located in the Loess Plateau, ravines horizon, complex terrain, which is extremely convenient to the banditry activities; The second Factor is war. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, especially after the war into the stalemate stage, the relations between the KMT and the Chinese Communist Party had deteriorated, the KMT government had not only cut off the foreign aid to the Border Region, but also the implementation supplies embargo, Resulting in the part of the Border area people's burden is too heavy, and some people were forced to be banditry for livelihoods .The third, some local government's operational errors made the Border Region Banditry increase. As part of the workers of the Border Region's Government had a low level education, the spirit of the Government can not fully be understand, and the work methods were wrong, so they took heavy Revenue forcing some people to be banditry. The Fourth, the Communist Party of China wanted to cooperate with the organization called Gelaohui , but the Party's policies had many imperfections, resulting in some Gelaohui organizations became a tool of the bandits to destroy the Border. Because these reasons, the banditry is difficult to solve.Banditry activities have been a serious threat to the social stability of the Border. In order to completely eradicate the bandits, the Government made a number of positive measures. First, developed the agricultural economy and reduced the people's burden, which made the people not to be banditry for livelihood. Second, strengthened the staff's education and improved their literacy, then they can understand the government policies well, and didn't make mistakes in their work. Third, to Controll the Gelaohui organizations, making it one of the Union of Anti-Japanese War instead using by bandits. At the same time, the Government use military means to solve the problem of banditry. These were very necessary, because the banditry had many weapons, only the military means can make banditry to lay down their arms .The problems were resolved by the joint efforts of the people and the government. There was a historical significance to resolve the problem. It not only stabilized the Border; but also supported the Anti-Japanese War.This paper mainly use the historical Record, archives, data, revolutionary, memoirs and other basic materials about the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region,The aim is to introduce the overview of the Border banditry, expose the causes of the banditry and evaluate the methods that used to eradicate the banditry. Then use the historical method, sociological theory to analysis the cause of the banditry's appearance. And make an objective evaluation for the measures that used to solute the Bandit problems by the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region government.