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A Study Of Transportation Industry In Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region (1937-1945)

Posted on:2020-11-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Y LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2416330596478414Subject:Chinese Communist Party
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The Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region is located on the Loess Plateau with poor natural and geographical conditions.This was a less populated area with backward transportation system and poor economy.The development of the transportation industry has been relatively backward,hindering the development of the social economy in the border areas.During the Anti-Japanese War,the transportation industry in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region did not undergo formal planning and developing before 1941.The local transportation relied mainly on private scattered individual households.After the "Southern Anhui Incident",th e Kuomintang reactio nary government cut off all assistance that th e border government could obtain from the outside.At the same time,they destroyed anti-Japanese united front,created disturbances and imposed military and economi c blockades.As a result,the border area govern ment has encountered unprecedented economic difficulties,such as the persistence budget deficits,the poor financial situation,and lack of access to medicine,daily necessities and other materials.The degree of development of the regional transportation industry and the layout of the transportation network are the basis of local social and ec onomic activities and important factor in determining economic development.Under such historical background,this paper starts with the development momentum of the transportation industry in this period.Also,This paper elaborates that border area governments developed economy,smacked Kuomintang's encirclement and blockades,and took some means of how to manage and being fit for local actual conditions,which aimed at ensuring military supplies in the front line.Then,through continuous improvement of road construction and the provision of logistics facilities along the way,the masses will be mobilized to make the local transportation industry develop rapidly and form a traffic road network centered on Yan'an.It laid the foundation for the victory of the Anti-Japanese War by strengthening export trade,stabilizing financial prices and guaranteeing the transport of production and daily necessities to solve financial difficulties and achieve self-sufficiency in providing hardware support.Finally,what I concluded is that the characteristics of developing border area transportation industry are presented.We get a number of historical experiences which can be used for references.There are more important significance and worthy of being studying for us.
Keywords/Search Tags:Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, transportation, road construction, economic development
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