Rural Welfare Programme Successful in Eleven Areas:
Economical as Well as Thorough Front A Commsroxomre Nanchang, Aug. 29.
For seven tony years, 1927 to 1934, Kinngsi suffered much through the devastation of the Communist-bandits, but the sympathy of the nation Renerously responded to the call of, the Klongsi people in distress and the Central' Government through the National" Economic Council assisted the Provincial Government in carrying out a programme of rural reconstruction. First recommended by three League of Nations experts this programme was Inter modified and approved by the Chinese Government. Ils main purpose was to help the province to help itself and Hig" main' activities took' the form of financial subsidies tothe various provincial organizations concerned with reconstruction, with the purpose of initiating new nes of service and improving the existing ones. Tt consisted of three main polis, related to one another, form~ ing a comprehensive whole, Financial Grants Half a million dotters was loaned to the two main ce-operatives. inthe Province, namely the Provincial Commission on Ca-operatives and the Kiangsi Bureaw on Ca-operatives of the NEC, (successor to the Kiangs! Bureau of China International Famine Relief Commission). The co-opera tives were instituted in 1931 as 0 part of flood relief. The Economic Council has accelerated" the rate and extended the work of the societies, Besides. credit co-opera tives; other forms of ce-operation such as marketing, supply and utility received attention according to their Importance.
"To the Provincial Welfare Centre $620,000 was ranted—for subsidizing the Provincial Health Department with $260,000, the Provincial agrieulural Tnstitute with $200,000 and the Provincial Normal Schools through the Commissioner of Education. with 360,000. These Provincial organiza tions therefore, have been able to render greater and belter service and to train more and better work=
1 densely populated area, should be im the middle of Tt-should be. in a village, not Hsien city or market town, but within sterking distance of ith "=i should be highway OF all road.
Sit should be im dlerlets where pubile safety ts no longer a problem, Git should "be stunted where ppublle buildings such as temples and. {ncesteal halls are available for use.
"Fatt. should be In_a communi where there fs some enlightened loca! Jeadership' with "a. possibility "for erther development of tha fader Tt was dificult to select a site where all these factors existed, but by diligent search the sponsors found pinees where most of them were met satisfactorily. "During the frst year, of work "when the Communist-bandit suppression campaign was at its height workers could not Penetrale into districts where the Reds were in power. With the exception of the second welfare centre, which was in former Communist territory, the first few were situated within 100 miles of Nanchang.
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