| "The people are the foundation of a nation and the masses regard food as their heaven." The grain, being the most basic of subsistence in human society, directly determines the national economy and the people's livelihood. So, all of the dynasties paid close attention to it. During the special time in the Anti-Japanese War, the nationalist government in Jiangxi province was confronted with adverse circumstances: grain exhausted, price of grain skyrocketing, supply and demand of the military and people severely maladjusted. So it tried to manage and regulate the mechanism of production, sale and transportation in the grain industries by way of administration power and law means in order to achieve its political goals: abundant army provisions and people's food, stable price of grain and a tranquil demand in the national war proved to be correct whether from the angel of military, politics or economy. However, the deviations especially the corruption in the regime of the Kuomintang discounted the practice of its policy of grain management so greatly that severely weakened its inherent substantial results to a certain degree. The thesis will analyse the three stages of the grain management of the district ruled by Kuomintang of Jiangxi during Anti-Japanese War from the growth and decline of government adjustments and controls behavior mutual interdynamic relation. We should examine the food administration of the district ruled by Kuomintang of Jiangxi during the Anti-Japanese War in order to offer the reference when we explore the new grain management style under the socialistic market economy system today. |