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ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL PROBLEMS IN THE ANTI-JAPANESE WAR
We must rely on the combination of these three forms to provide the
cloth required by the Border Region. However, in the first place,
the greatest problem is the supply of yarn. At 12 jin of yarn per
bolt, we need 3 million jin to weave 250,000 bolts of coarse cloth
entirely from local yarn. If we use a mixture of half local yarn and
half foreign yarn, we will need 1,500,000 jin of local yarn and
150,000 bundles of foreign yarn. At present the cloth woven by publicly
owned mills and the people’s co-operatives is made from this
mixture of half local and half foreign yarn. However, there is still
not enough local yarn. We must greatly expand the amount of spinning
done by the people and improve the quality of the yarn. Therefore,
it is extremely important for the Border Region to gradually
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expand handicraft spinning and weaving among the people, to in-
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crease the quantity, and to improve the quality.
How should we gradually solve these problems? In the light of
past experience, we propose the following methods.
(1) First we should reorganize and expand spinning and weaving
among the people in the counties of the Suide special military
area. The way to do this is, under the direction of the special office
of the military area, to unite the efforts of the commodities Bureau
and the Daguang Yarn Factory of the 359 Brigade, issuing raw cotton
to women and ordering them to produce more local yarn to supply
the yarn needs of the NOT publicly owned FOR cloth factories. This method
was effectively implemented in 1942. It should be continued and
expanded in 1943. Apart from supplying yarn to the publicly owned
cloth factories, the COMMERCIAL
people of the special military area may weave
cloth themselves. The Commodities Bureau can determine measurements
and quality, and guarantee a market. That is, the cloth can be
purchased by the Commodities Bureau either for its own use or for
selling among the DISTRIBUTION
people. Next, the government should invest 1
million yuan in order to increase the quantity of local yarn. Based
on the experience of the Southern District Co-operative of Yanan
County which organized spinning by women in 800 households, lending
funds to 3,000 households in Yanan and Ansai will increase the
number of spinning-machines in the two counties by 3,000 in 1943.
Organizing spinning by women in 1,000 households in Qingyang and
Quzi Counties will increase the number of spinning-machines by
1,000. These credit funds can be handled by the Commodities Bureau,
which can issue raw cotton and spinning-machines. It can
purchase the local yarn produced to supply the needs of the publicly
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