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nary people and open new farms. With these methods grain production
in 1943 will be greater and better than in 1942. Agriculture
must not be considered backward and must not be neglected.
B. All official organizations and schools, large and small,
must allocate the necessary personnel to specialize in growing
vegetables, supplemented by light work done by working personnel
and students. According to the area and climate, they
should become self-sufficient in vegetables for six or more
months of the year, and strive to become entirely self-sufficient.
This is one of the most important steps in improving their livelihood.
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2. Co-ordinate and develop the various kinds of handicrafts. Ac-
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cording to the area, system and the principle of better troops and
simpler administration, join the existing handicrafts of a similar
nature run by each section into partnerships. At the same time, according
to the needs of each area and each system, set up new handicraft
workshops, such as oil-pressing workshops, places to make soya
sauce and condiments, charcoal pits and so forth. The principles
for running these handicrafts should be first that the workshop itself
must be self-supporting, and second that it can make a profit.
3. Develop animal husbandry. All official organizations and
schools both large and NOT small should FOR raise pigs and strive to equal
359 Brigade’s rate of one pig for every five people, in order to increase
the supply of meat. Treat increasing the supply of meat, improving
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and raising health-standards as extremely
important matters. In addition, each large official organization and
school, and particularly the army, should set aside capital, and without
harming the interests of the people select areas in Sanbian,
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and so forth, to run livestock farms. They
should raise large numbers of cows, sheep, donkeys and horses, preparing
for the time after victory in the War of Resistance when the
Border Region’s salt trade declines and it has to be replaced by animal
exports.
4. Develop transport undertakings. After a thorough drive for
better troops and simpler administration, keep only a small number
of animals to ensure the transport of grain and straw needed by each
official organization and school itself. All surplus animals together
with animals specially purchased should be organized into transport
teams to transport salt or goods. These transport undertakings can