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How Did The War Affect China's Economy During World War 2

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Being a traditional agricultural country for a long history, it was inevitable that China would get through a hard time related to food supply during World War II. With large amounts of land occupied by enemies and displacement of so many people, agriculture productivity became obsolete day by day.
During that period of time, the existence of agricultural tax could be seen almost everywhere in China: China’s armies anchored at the revolutionary base badly needed the implementation of tax to support their war against intruders; Japanese armies imposed tax from peasantries on the occupied land. No matter how the war was continuing, the innocent people dedicated in agriculture suffered the most. The Eighth Route Army put the combination of agriculture and resistance into practice, which to some extent lessened the stress on peasantries who faithfully followed them to the revolutionary base.
By the way, it’s worth mentioning that during World War II, China’s fertilizer production was far from enough because national industrial development was at a standstill. As a result, grain growth efficiency was often not as high as it used to be. …show more content…

A number of regulations related to agriculture were changed in time of national crisis: in many areas, land owners were not allowed to ask peasantries for tax; at the same time, due to collective labor, rich farmers and small land owners didn’t suffer huge losses. Once a critic said China was an eastern lighthouse of World War II for it, as a poor and old agricultural nation, succeeded in holding Japan’s pace in aggression. Depending on generally declining agriculture, China was still a nation with strength in agricultural production, which owed to the nation’s efforts to improve agriculture in

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