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ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL PROBLEMS IN THE ANTI-JAPONESE WAR
ing expenses and provisions expenses was 10,473,757.17 yuan,
5,673,804.53 yuan above the original budget. There was still a surplus
after payments were made from production income.
In 1942 the budget for expenses (excluding grain, clothing and
bedding) was 5,833,636 yuan and we took on the task of helping central
expenses with 2,500,000 yuan. The year’s production plan was
for 12,400,000 yuan. By August (statistics for the later period are
not yet available), commerce had earned a profit of 38,969,230,20
yuan and industry had a profit of 431,773.40 yuan, giving a total of
39,401,004.60 yuan.
By June we had received 1,440,058.60 yuan running expenses,
and supplementary expenses for the first issue of summer clothing
FROM MARX
TO MAO
of 206, 825 yuan. Actual expenditure was running expenses
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7 , 750, 598. 85 yuan, supplements for bedding and clothing
3,067,730.60 yuan, and supplements for provisions (the State issued
0.70 yuan per man per day and the actual cost was 3.00 yuan) over
the half-year, 9,180,000 yuan. Most of the winter clothing and bedding
for the latter half of the year was provided by the brigades and
regiments themselves. The second issue of summer clothing, half
of the padded cloth, 40 per cent of the bedding, and bindings, bullet
bags, grenade pouches, padded cotton shoes, and light shoes, these
eight items had a total value of 12,641,200 yuan. Other things like
charcoal for heating in NOT winter were FOR provided by each unit itself. As
for animal fodder, in 1941 we provided two months’ horse-feed ourselves.
In 1942 the Finance Department issued eight months’ hay
for horses, leaving COMMERCIAL
two months’ unaccounted for. In general we cut
two months’ supply of grass ourselves, saving roughly 1,200,000
yuan. Furthermore, in 1942 the budget for horse fodder was 11,000
tan. According to the regulations of the Finance Department 1 tou
of hulled grain is DISTRIBUTION
equivalent to 2 tou of horse fodder. But this is
insufficient and it is necessary to increase the annual amount by
2,750 tan which comes to 1,375,000 yuan at 500 yuan per tan.
The outcome of five years’ production has been that, besides
meeting annual running expenses, clothing and bedding expenses and
provisions expenses, current financial assets include 24 million yuan
commercial capital, 556 transport animals (excluding plough oxen,
and excluding the First and Fifth Regiments) with a value of
11,232,000 yuan, and factory capital of 712,000 yuan. The combined
total is 35,944,00 yuan.
(Note: The above summary does not include the 359 Brigade and
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