Economic Function Of Government And Cizhou Kiln’s Production And Operation

Cizhou kiln is one of famous people’s kilns in China, at the same time, it is also anoutstanding representative of the Chinese folk handicraft industry. The production center ofCizhou kiln in Modern times is Pengcheng town,Fengfeng mine area,Handan City, Hebeiprovince.The government’s economic function was closely related to the production andbusiness operation of Cizhou kiln in two periods which were before the outbreak of theAnti-Japanese War and after the victory of the war, but the form of the government’seconomic function was different in this two periods.During the Nanjing National Government period (1928-1937), Pengcheng ceramicsindustry get a further development promoted by the governments at all levels, but it has notcompleted the goal of “from the coarse porcelain to the fine porcelain”, then this goal wasinterrupted by the Anti-Japanese War. In the management of the porcelain making industry,the government mainly relied on “the third organization” such as the trade association ofindustry and commerce, the traditional guild and “the yellow unions” to carry outmanagement. The government’s tax policy, also affected the Pengcheng industry healthydevelopment to a certain extent. Through mediated of labor relations to relieved nervous laborconflicts and enabled the ceramics production, the government can proceed smoothly. Thegovernment had not directly intervened the internal affairs of the kilns, and they had greatfreedom in their daily production management and product sales, they according to their willsand depending the actual needs for their production.After Pengcheng liberation (1945-1949), the ownership of the ceramics production hasgreatly changed. Porcelain industry improvement had been recovered under the managementof the border region government, and the first generation of fine porcelain successfullydeveloped in1948, at the same time, the production equipment also has been improved. Theborder region government created a new ceramics production and management institution toleading ceramics production directly. The ceramics production has been recovered throughsome means such as bank loans and fund raising. Workers of the porcelain industry launched a struggle on kiln owners under the leadership of the government, but it also appeared “left”errors during the struggle, the government adjusted industrial policy in time to ensure that theceramics production can proceed smoothly. As the Chinese communist party and the borderregion government established their leadership to the porcelain industry, the scale of theState-Owned Enterprise and Public Enterprises growing stronger and stronger, the internalmanagement and product sales model of the Kiln which leaded by the government haschanged dramatically in comparison with before the Anti-Japanese War.There are two main factors make the economic functions of government in the twoperiods different: One is the background of government’s age and Nature of the regime itself,the other is the basis production conditions of the Cizhou kiln ceramics. At the same time, thefunctions of the government in promoted improvement of porcelain industry also havesomething in common. Discussing the relationship between the government economicfunctions and production operating conditions of Cizhou kiln of the historical period canprovide reference for how to play the government’s economic function effectively, and how topromote the development of county economy nice and fast.