Review Hebei Regional Famine And Relief In The Ifrst Decade Of Nanjing National Government (1927-1937)

Since ancient times, natural disasters in Hebei region are very frequent. After theestablishment of Nanjing national government, the disaster was still aggravated, showing thecharacteristics of frequent, diversity, mass and so on, more serious compared to the previousperiod, had caused great losses to people’s lives and property. Go into its causes thoroughly,besides natural conditions and environment, but also inevitablely connected with socialinstability, low economic level, frequent wars and other social factors. Serious disaster notonly caused a large number of labor wandering and casualties, but also made great damage tothe rural economy, and finally lead to the loss of property, recession, and even disrupt thenormal development of the cultural and educational. To the victims, caused both physicallyand psychologically blow. In the light of hazard severity, the Nanjing National Governmenthad taken a series of corresponding disaster relief actions, either the degree of attention or thethe process of slove the disaster problem, they made great progress compared to the previousperiod, after this they set up a special organization and issued a series of regulations. Atdisaster prevention, the government strengthend the construction and rebuild of waterconservancy project. At the disaster relief, the government also took corresponding measures,including urgent relief, farming relief, remit taxes and welfare-to-work etc. thus established arelatively perfect modern disaster relief system. During the period of the relief process, folkorganizations and charity groups combined with the use of western innovative relief model,take the “both Prevention and Response” to help the victims to resume production. Which tosome extent, not only to alleviate the disaster, but also played a catalytic role in the reliefprocess of modernization.Review of the Nanjing National Government during the Period of famine and relief, themain purpose is to mirror from history, then further reform and improve Chinese disasterrelief system, strengthen the government’s relief force, guide and support NGO to participatein disaster relief work, in order to adapt to social development trend; wide spread theknowledge of disaster monitoring and prevention, self and mutual save, enhance social awareness of natural disasters, so that both the surface phenomenon and root causes aresolved, nip in the bud.