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ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL PROBLEMS IN THE ANTI-JAPONESE WAR
Services Department statistics, in the first half of 1941 its various
official organizations got 56,814 jin of pork worth 170,440 yuan at
the market prices of that time. This was enough for each person to
have 1 jin of pork a month. If we add the following six months, the
value for the whole year was roughly 350,000 yuan. According to
the statistics of the Central Administration Bureau, the various official
organizations and schools directly under central control raised
an average of 2 65 pigs a month up to October 1942. Over the ten
months this gave an estimated 23,330 jin of pork worth 700,000 yuan
in Border Region currency. Another example is the top-level official
organizations in Yanan county, which in the first ten months of
1942 earned 10,000 yuan from raising pigs. According to these fig-
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ures the total value of animal husbandry by the official organiza-
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tions and schools of the whole Border Region is more than 4 million
yuan.
As well as raising pigs, raising sheep is also profitable where
there is pastureland.
After a thorough drive for better troops and simpler administration
in 1943, we can adopt the method used by 359 Brigade whereby
they assign one cook for every forty people and reduce the service
personnel. The remaining cooks and service personnel are sent to
work on the production front where they can do many things such as
growing grain and vegetables, NOT and raising FORpigs
and sheep. Running
large-scale animal husbandry on large livestock farms should be
given greater prominence in 1943.
Apart from the COMMERCIAL
grain, vegetables and animals, there is also charcoal-burning
and labour done outside working hours, both of which
have provided examples worth looking at. All the charcoal used in
the winter of 1942 by the various official organizations and schools
in Yanan was provided DISTRIBUTION
by teams of people from those institutions
sent up into the hills. If it had been bought a substantial sum of
money would have been involved. In September the Central General
Affairs Section organized a charcoal-burning team of forty-two
people made up of service personnel, cooks and grooms to spend
three months up in the hills making charcoal. Altogether they prepared
145 pits of charcoal completing their task of making 140,000
jin. At 1.20 yuan a jin this was worth 168,000 yuan. If during the
four winter months the 30,000 people in the official organizations
and schools of the Border Region on average made 1 jin of charcoal
per head per day, this would provide 3,600,000 jin of charcoal worth
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