The Rural Social Reconstruction Led By CPC In The Anti-Japanese War

During the Anti-Japanese War, CPC was the local ruling party in the Anti-Japanese Base Area. In support of the war, constructing the rural into solid rear base and making it to be the new democratic experiment, the base had taken on the dual tasks-"anti-Japanese and social reform". This article takes rural social reconstruction in Northwest Shanxi Anti-Japanese Base as main object of study, and then sums up the CPC's experience in transforming rural society.The first chapter introduced as the background that has summarized the northwest rural society and the base's foundation, introduced this base's geography, the social environment as well as Japanese, CPC two strength's involvement, then sets the Anti-Japanese base dual goals: anti-Japanese and social reform.The second chapter mainly from politics, the economy and the culture three aspects has discussed the history of northwest Shanxi rural reconstruction under the leadership of CPC. On the view of regional political reconstruction, the new village government was built in the rural areas. Traditional squires and the divine right tended to decline. Grassroots became the major managers. Peasants' status had been greatly improved. Their potential enthusiasms spurt out. The new grass-roots organizations for the center to Agriculture Council absorbed the rural majority of people and gradually broke the traditional blood relationship network and promoted the process of peasants' socialization. On the view of the evolution of the rural economic relations, Reducing Rent and Rate and Cooperative mode of production to some extent had changed the economic status of farmers and triggered the evolution of the rural economic relations. The major production resources - land began to transfer from landlord to Pinnong and Zhongnong. The number of classes had changed. Village strata structure showed the trend that the two poles were gradually narrowing and the middle classes were gradually expanding. On the view of the culture network's transformation, the popularization of new democratic education and culture, not only eliminate illiteracy, but also gradually transfuse anti-Japanese patriotic spirit and national awareness and the ideology of the CPC into the hearts of the farmers. This greatly contributed to the formation of the whole national war of resistance. At the same time it had a profound impact on the course of history in the modernization of rural areas.The third chapter has summed up the profound historic significance. The writer using of the relative method sums up the CPC's experience in rural society reform. First, with the theory and practice of rural construction faction compared, the writer points out CPC's unique and profound understanding to the rural construction. Second, with the Chiang Kai-shek government's rural policies compared, we can see CPC's practical experience of the rural social reformation. Third, comparing "history" with "now", we can outlook the current new rural reconstruction's development path.