| China experienced a difficult period of three years from 1959 to 1961, the result is industrial and agricultural imbalance and the national economy being severely hit. In rural areas, due to the impact of natural disaster and the Great Leap Forward, people’s lives are threatened at this time as well as the rural food production reduction, it makes rural famine disaster urgent and necessary. This article from the difficult period of three years of Shanxi rural disaster relief angle, analyzes the government relief and the production of self-help measures, as well as the combination of the two in the relief process, and these measures make people get through starving in the achievements and shortcomings.The government and people suffer food shortages and lack of supply difficulties and insufficiency, they is not a passive disaster rather than take positive measures under the guidance of the country. They adopt the following measure to fight natural calamities.in the first time, Shanxi Provincial Committee send cadres to the disaster area, and understand the disaster and relief committee the development of a series of disaster relief policies. First step is to protect the basic livelihood of people through the issuance of relief funds to arrange the lives of the victims and so on. Second, by adjusting existing policies to alleviate the disaster, these measures mainly based on the will of the people to allot some public canteens, reduce food procurement and other measures to alleviate the food shortage in rural areas. the last step is to send medical teams to treat during the period of "four" disease in rural areas,and give relief of people on drugs and food. Party and government relief measures encouraged people self-sufficiency, the people launched a "small harvest " self-help measures on behalf of some of the production of food, the production of sports disaster like famine, the government and people will minimize the loss through joint effects.In difficult period of three years, there are some deficiencies in Shan xi Province’s disaster relief, but the government and the people still achieved some Success in the relief process. The government disaster relief ensure the basic livelihood of the people, in order to maintain the social order;people through self-help production improve the ability to withstand natural famine. In short, the three difficult years in Shan xi rural areas relief is effective, and disaster relief in Shan xi Province has a great future reference. |
