Food Crisis And Solutions Of Shan-Gan-Ning Border Area During The Anti-Japanese War Period

After September 1940, Shan-Gan-Ning Border Area once confronted with a so harsh condition as tight food supply and financial hardship, which was caused by many factors. Against that, the Chinese Communist Party and Shan-Gan-Ning Border Area Government took a full range of effective measures, for example, imposing public food, organizing big production campaign, vigorously developing agriculture, simplifying administration and launching food-saving movement, which made dramatic effects and basically finished the intended target and successfully pulled through the crisis. Discussing the food crisis issue of the Shan-Gan-Ning Border Area during the Anti-Japanese War period has great historic significance as well as practical significance. This essay will mainly focus on the food condition of Shan-Gan-Ning Border Area in Anti-Japanese War period, the causes and effects of the food crisis, the Border Area Government's intervention and solution to this crisis, National Government's solution to this crisis and effect on the Border Area Government, the analysis on the Shan-Gan-Ning Area food work performance totally five aspects and make a discussion to have a systematic review on the food issue of Shan-Gan-Ning Border Area during the Anti-Japanese War period.