Chen Baozhen And The Hunan Famine Policies Research During The Period Of Hundred Days Of Reform

Hunan province because of the unique geographical environment, frequent suffered from floods’and drought’s invasion. What’s more, the official corruption, the effects of the war, the growth of population and the destruction of the environment make the famine situation of Hunan is extremely severe during the period of Hundred Days of Reform. Then the governor of Hunan Province Chen Baozhen was bathed in the excellent family education and nurtured by the excellent traditional culture from childhood. In addition, The family tradition of "Yining Chen" make Chen Baozhen form a excellent quality and noble personality that Pay attention to the suffering of the people.In the face of the grim famine situation of flood and drought disasters during the period of Hundred Days of Reform and the limited relief capacity of Qing government, in order to maintain the social stability of Hunan and his quality of paying attention to people’s sufferings’promote, he adopted a series of effective famine relief measures. Such as disaster survey, relieve, lower prices, placement, remission, business promote, the construction of water conservancy, cultivation and so on, which constitute an important part of the Hunan Famine Policies he dominated.These famine policies are accompanied by the reform movement in Hunan, thus showing a relief affairs system, principal part of relief diversification, relief means with modern color and other characteristics of the times. Implementation of the famine policies, effectively achieved remarkable results in relieving the disaster’s damage, it not only preserved the social stability of Hunan during the period of Hundred Days of Reform, but also create a good social environment for the reform movement in Hunan. At the same time, it has accumulated a lot of rich experience in disaster relief for future generations. In addition, a series of modern science and technology applied in the famine relief promoted the Hunan charity started to remote the pace of modernization.