RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

CHINA PROGRAM
appropriation of Local Currency #150,000. This
movement is a semiofficial project in rural reconstruction.
It originated as an adult literacy
movement and has evolved into a comprehensive
experimental program for research in education
and its experimental application to the problem
of bridging the gap, so far as rural conditions
are concerned, between the Old and the New
China.
It would be a disservice in China to create in a
rural region an organization which although
desirable would be obviously outside of the
financial means of the local population. It is
necessary to develop a program involving local
government, security, education, livelihood, and
public health which can be supported with the
meager existing financial resources. The techniques
to be evolved in all branches must be
so simple and economical that they are capable
of being adopted elsewhere without the use of
funds other than those normally available.
This 'organized educational movement has
been developed in the county of Ting tlsien, a
district with a population of 400,000. It is now
ready for extension through the launching of a
program to train personnel. Utilization of knowledge
is being worked out in each field with the
purpose of broad application of this knowledge
to the country at large. A program involving the
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