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REPORT TO THE SECOND NATIONAL CONGRESS
materials for articles of everyday use. It shall emphasize afforestation
and increases in livestock. Taking the small farm economy as a
basis, plans must be worked out for certain branches of agriculture
as, for example, cotton, whose production shall be fixed for each
province.
The Soviets must lead the peasants to solve such vital problems
as labour, oxen, fertilizers, seeds, irrigation, etc. Here the organized
mobilization of the labour force and the participation of women
in production are of vital importance. The Soviets must lead the
peasantry in launching the Spring and Summer ploughing campaigns.
About 25 per cent of the peasantry is in need of oxen, hence the
necessity of organizing the oxen co-operatives. The Soviets must
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direct the greatest attention to irrigation. At present we are not in
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need of Soviet farms and collective farms, but for agricultural improvement
an experimental station shall be set up in each district.
In addition, agricultural research institutes shall be established and
agricultural products showrooms arranged.
As a result of the blockade of the enemy, difficulties have arisen
in our exportation, and many handicraft industries in the Soviet districts
have declined. Tobacco and paper have suffered most. But
these difficulties are by no means invincible. Owing to the large
consumption of the people, the Soviet goods can find a big market
within the Soviet territory. NOT In the first FOR half of 1933 the efforts of the
Soviets and the development of the co-operatives resulted in the revival
of many industries as, e.g., tobacco, paper, tungsten, camphor,
fertilizers, agricultural COMMERCIAL
instruments, etc. Attention shall be directed
to cloth, drugs, sugar industries. New industries have sprung up in
Mien-che-kang province (paper, cloth, etc.). To relieve the shortage
in salt, nitrate-salt has been manufactured. It is hard to map out
a plan for the scattered DISTRIBUTION
handicraft industries, but it is possible to
elaborate a plan for the leading industries, above all, for the undertakings
operated by the state and the co-operatives. The Soviet and
co-operative controlled enterprises shall make an appraisal of the
production of (raw) materials as well as market both in the White
and Red districts.
The Soviet shall organize foreign trade and directly control the
flow of such goods as the importation of salt and clothes, the exportation
of food and tungsten. It shall see to it that food be equally
distributed within the Soviet districts. This work began in Mienche-kang
at an early date, followed by Kiangsi in the Spring of 1933.
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