Study On Natural Disaster Relief In Liaoning Province From 1912 To 1931

Natural disaster is a social problem which perplexes China from ancient times totoday, especially in period of the republic of China. As one of the measures to comfortthe common people, Liaoning Province is an epitome of social relief in China. Thethesis cards systematically to the archives based on the relief of natural disaster from1912to1931using the method of theory of regional history from the perspective ofsocial sciences. It also analyses, sorts and induces the feature of natural disaster ofLiaoning province from the view of history, geography, sociology and economics. Itlays stress on the response to the situation of natural disaster from the government tothe folk in the early period of the republic of China.Chapter one illustrates the cause of natural disaster in Liaoning province from theperspective of natural and social factor in geography and history. Natural factormainly includes climate change and geographical environment. Social factor includesthe ecological damage in human, wars and the limited in the decline of the scienceand technology of people in Liaoning province.Chapter two states the general situation of natural disaster in Liaoning provincefrom the perspective of category and feature. It investigates the blood, the drought, thestorm and the pests and introduces the disaster in Liaoning province. At the same time,it induces and concludes that the disaster is long in time, large in scale and destructivein degree this period in Liaoning province.Chapter three elaborates institutions of relief of natural disaster in Liaoningprovince from the perspective of the government and the folk. As for the government,it involves the relief institutions of the province and the small place, the additionalgovernment benevolent society. As for the folk, it relies on the charity. Due to theexchange of the east and west, the charity in foreign churches also plays an importantrole in the period.Chapter four expounds the measures of relief of natural disaster in Liaoningprovince from the view of rapid assist in big disaster, the help of each other, thereduction of tax and the prevention of disaster, the extra fields. The government inLiaoning province establishes the institutions to announce investigate the situation ofdisaster which is to conduct it. First, rapid assist in big disaster takes measure ofdistribution of the foods, money and the factory of porridge. Second, help of eachother means to go through the trouble via denotation of the society and the assist of the people. Thirdly, the reduction of tax means to recover to the normal life throughthe decline of tax and the help to people plough. Finally, the prevention of disaster,the extra fields mean to prevent the natural disaster based on the establishment ofspare field and warehouse storage.Chapter five concludes the relief of natural disaster in Liaoning province, whichconfirms the positive effect of the work in the relief of natural disaster and at the sametime analyzes the shortages. The quite sound relief system timely saves the propertyand life of people, and also offers some experiments to the later work of relief in thenatural disaster. However, the shortages are the laggard productivity, the imperfectrelief system, the laggard relief thought, the frequent war and the corruption of theofficials.We can comprehend the situation of natural disaster’s relief deeply in Liaoningprovince in the period of the republic of China from the research above. These arebeneficial to the relief of natural disaster in Liaoning province even the northeastChina nowadays. They also provide the theoretical foundation to the development ofthe relief work, which has the practical significance.