Studies On Shanxi Opium Issue During The Republic Of China (1912-1937)

Opium smoke poison problem is one of the majorproblems affecting society in modern China. Opium smokepoison for great harm in modern China, not only destroyedthe body of the Chinese people, and make China’s socialeconomy suffered huge damage. Smoke poison overrun,the height of each year, tens of millions of addicts, to armyafter normal training, ordinary people for selling wife sonsmoking addiction and other social phenomenon. Afterentering the20th century, foreign drug control public opinion, the British opium to China input also reduced yearby year, especially after the international anti-drugmeeting held in Shanghai, anti-drug organization set upone after another all over the country, in the nationalpublicity in drug control, formed the good public opinionagainst drugs, also prompted the government tostrengthen the war on drugs.Based on the "declaration","da gong bao narcoticscontrol commission of Shanxi Province by the assemblyon drug control in the reports of shanxi smoke poisonproblems as main materials, the yen hsi-shan periodshanxi anti-smoking drug problems were analyzed, and itsdevelopment process. This article besides theintroduction, the text points four parts: The smoke of the first part of Shanxi Province duringthe period of the republic of China drug problems, themain narrative shanxi yen hsi-shan period of smoke poison.Including the poppy cultivation in shanxi area, population,YanFan opium smoking and drug source, through this partof the introduction can overall of shanxi to understand thesituation of the poisonous smoke. At the beginning of10thcentury is also introduced the rise and development of thedomestic campaign. This period internal opposition toimperialist countries selling opium gradually rising, theBritish parliament also reduces the output of China’sopium, do set the stage for China would be able toprohibition. Especially all the nations in the early days ofsmoking will be held in China, the international community understand the real China smoke poison situation, theinternational community to put pressure on the Chinesegovernment, asked to start smoking. Under the influenceof the conference, the domestic drug group also blossomeverywhere, for government organizations ban did publicopinion.The second part in detail describes the yen hsi-shanadministration anti-smoking policies and measures,mainly introduced the shanxi government laws andregulations for drug control was established institutions,and the workings of these institutions and regulationsimplementation. Also detailed the yen hsi-shanno-smoking policy u-turn. Yen hsi-shan’s drug policy,generally can be divided into two periods (1911-1931by banning cigarettes as the main goal; The second period1932-1945is mainly selling the "smoking cessation drugcake" is given priority to, smoking is complementary. Thispart mainly analyses the reason of the policy change, andthen reveals the transition of the truth. This part is a corepart of this paper.The third part of main ban smoking in non-smokinginstitutions of Shanxi Province committee encountered inperforming their smoking regulations, summarized thecase and submit the documents to the government at ahigher level, local officials in the course of the case for therewards and punishment, the commission in the army andrailway on the drug behavior of harsher punishment, setup specifically for investigation and the railway staff, this part shows the non-smoking institutions in handling casesin smoking in specific cases.The fourth part mainly analyzes shanxi yen hsi-shanperiod smoke poison and a lot of reasons, the yen hsi-shanearly in his presidency to prohibit opium in priority tograsp, but did not stop to see years of effect, this sectionanalyzes the and a lot of reasons, explain the complexityand difficulty of anti-drug work, and the yen hsi-shangovernment drug administration of the positive role ofanti-drug work today.