Study On Agricultural Natural Disasters And Countermeasures In KMT-controlled Areas Of Shaanxi Province In The 1940s

In the 1940 s,agricultural natural disasters occurred frequently in KMT-controlled areas of Shaanxi,which had a serious impact on the agricultural production and people’s lives in Shaanxi,brought huge losses to the social economy,and caused great damage to the modern politics and economy of Shaanxi.Culture and other aspects have had a profound impact.Besides its natural factors,the frequent occurrence of natural disasters in this period also has more profound social reasons.Natural disasters lead to the displacement of people,the abandonment of a large amount of land,the shrinking of agricultural production,the further decline of rural economy and the destruction of social and economic functions,which also result in the further deterioration of the ecological environment.In the face of natural disasters,the Shaanxi Provincial Government adopted a series of rescues.On the basis of inheriting the traditional famine policy,the disaster measures have established the modern disaster relief management system by drawing lessons from the western disaster relief system.In the actual disaster relief activities,emergency relief and relief are combined,and more attention is paid to prevention before and after the disaster,organizing the people to plant trees,build water conservancy,dig wells,irrigation fields,and so on,in order to prevent and cure disasters fundamentally.In addition,civil organizations also can not be ignored in disaster relief,groups and individuals at home and abroad have played an important role in disaster relief,is an important supplement to the government disaster relief forces.The article is mainly discussed from four aspects: the first part introduces the general situation of agricultural natural disasters in KMT-controlled areas of Shaanxi Province,including the main types of agricultural natural disasters occurred in the 1940 s,disaster conditions and their characteristics;The second part analyzes the causes of agricultural natural disasters,including natural causes and social causes,the third part mainly discusses the disaster relief measures of the government in the KMT-controlled areas of Shaanxi,and makes a brief comparison with the disaster relief measures of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.The fourth part analyzes the impact and consequences of natural disasters.The conclusion part summarizes the experiences and lessons of the government disaster relief in KMT-controlled areas of Shaanxi,and draws a conclusion about the current disaster prevention and mitigation.Industry inspiration.