The Anti-opium Study In Santai County,Sichuan Province

Since modern times,opium problem has become a social problem to successive governments.After the establishment of Nanjing national government,it took a prohibitive tax policy to the opium problem,which was opposed to public.After that several changes have taken place,but the essence didn't change,and cannot completely solve the problem of opium.In 1935,in order to ban opium,the national government launched a nationwide “two years of drug-banning,six years of opium-banning” campaign.As an important production and marketing of opium province,Sichuan province,naturally became an important target of the national government.When Liuxiang,chairman of Sichuan province,died in 1938,Sichuan province political instability again.While the Anti-Japanese War has broken out,the national government moved to Chongqing,Sichuan became important anti-Japanese national salvation rear base of the national government.To stabilize the political situation in Sichuan province to serve for the Anti-Japanese War in September 1939,Chiang Kai-shek became the chairman of the Sichuan province.This period was also the ending time for six years of banning political work in Sichuan province,after Jiang became the chairman of Sichuan province,he paid attention to and strengthened banning political work in Santai county,the north of Sichuan province,as an example,and the time is mainly to the period of Chiang Kai-shek government from the aspects of banning species,embargo,sucking,and clearing private-own opium to hold the opium-banning movement,and according to the statement of the county government agencies personnel composition,and reaction to ban political content from public,we can see that Santai banned political work has obtained certain results,but did not reach the first expectation of the,which are caused by the following aspects administrative staff,of national government did not pay full attention insufficient funds,public understanding of smoking opium is not enough and the determination and preparation of government itself to ban political is insufficient.