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ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL PROBLEMS IN THE ANTI-JAPONESE WAR
Self-sufficient industry run by the Rear Services system was
started in the winter of 1940 just like that run by the central financial
system. After two years’ operation, 1941 and 1942, there was
one textile mill, two papermaking factories, three charcoal factories,
two carpentry factories, two silk-weaving factories, and one
factory each for coal [shitan], refined salt, pottery, bedding and
clothing, writing-brushes, ironwork, flour-milling, shoes and hempweaving,
a total of nineteen altogether. There are no statistics yet
for the amount of capital, number of employees and amount of production
of these factories. Although the profit earned by these undertakings
is not great (in the first ten months of 1942 it was 200,000
yuan), their great merits are:
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i. they are run in a centralized war by the Rear Services and
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are not run freely in a dispersed way as by the various official
organizations and schools. Thus leadership and inspection are
thorough, and mistakes are quickly corrected.
ii. They constitute a wide range of operation. Unlike the
Central Committee’s Finance and Economy Office system’s initial
concentration on textiles through the establishment of eight
factories, the Rear Services has at all times only run one factory,
the Jiaotong Textile Mill, and thus had spare capacity to do
other things.
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iii. They are entirely aimed at ensuring supplies. Although
they do not earn money, they have provided a supply of many
necessary goods.
In October 1942 we carried out a thorough drive for better troops
and simpler administration. The Central Administration Bureau and
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were combined, and their industries administered
in a unified way. We also carried out further reorganization.
The Tuanjie and Jiaotong textile mills and the bedding and clothing
factories were transferred to the Finance Department. The medicine,
alcohol, iron, and glassmaking factories were transferred to
the Garrison Office. The Natural Sciences Institute and all the things
that went with it were handed over to the government. All remaining
factories were closed, or merged and handed over to the control
of the Central Administration Bureau. By December 1942 there were
three carpentry factories, two papermaking factories, five charcoalfactories,
one shoe-factory, one oil-pressing factory, one flour-mill,
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