毛泽东选集/抗日时期的经济问题和财政问题

#§The general policy guiding our economic and financial work is to develop the economy and ensure supplies.

# But many of our comrades place one-sided stress on public finance and do not understand the importance of the economy as a whole; engrossed in matters of revenue and expenditure as such, they cannot find solutions to any problem hard as they try.

# The reason is that an outmoded and conservative notion is doing mischief in their minds.

# They do not know that while a good or a bad financial policy affects the economy, it is the economy that determines finance.

# The financial problem in the Shensi-Kansu-Ningsia Border Region is that of supplying funds for the living and operating expenses of tens of thousands of troops and civilian personnel, in other words, the problem of supplying funds for waging the war.

# These funds come partly from taxes paid by the people and partly from production carried on by the tens of thousands of troops and civilian personnel themselves.

# We shall simply be resigning ourselves to extinction unless we develop both the private and the public sectors of the economy.

# To neglect economic development and the opening up of sources of finance, and instead to hope for the solution of financial difficulties by curtailing indispensable expenditures, is a conservative notion which cannot solve any problem.

#§In the last five years we have passed through several stages.

# Our worst difficulties occurred in 1940 and 1941, when the Kuomintang created friction by its two anti-Communist drives.

# The Kuomintang tried to strangle us by cutting off the funds due to us and imposing an economic blockade; we were indeed in dire straits.

# Not only did the people of the Border Region provide us with grain but, in particular, we resolutely built up the public sector of our economy with our own hands.

# The government established many industries to meet the needs of the Border Region, the troops engaged in an extensive production campaign and expanded agriculture, industry and commerce to supply their own needs, and the tens of thousands of people in the various organizations and schools also developed similar economic activities for their own support.

# This self-supporting economy, which has been developed by the troops and the various organizations and schools, is a special product of the special conditions of today.

# Do not these indisputable historical facts prove the truth that supplies can be ensured only through economic development?

#While we still face many difficulties, the foundation of the public sector of our economy has already been laid.

# In another year, by the end of 1943, this foundation will be even firmer.

#§Developing the economy is the correct line, but development does not mean reckless or ill-founded expansion.

# Some comrades who disregard the specific conditions here and now are setting up an empty clamour for development; for example, they are demanding the establishment of heavy industry and putting forward plans for huge salt and armament industries, all of which are unrealistic and unacceptable.

# The Party's line is the correct line for development; it opposes outmoded and conservative notions on the one hand and grandiose, empty and unrealistic plans on the other.

# This is the Party's struggle on two fronts in financial and economic work.

#§While we must develop the public sector of our economy, we should not forget the importance of help from the people.

# They have given us grain, 90,000 tan in 1940 200,000 in 1941 and 160,000 in 1942, thus ensuring food for our troops and civilian personnel.

# Up to the end of 1941, the grain output of the public sector of our agriculture was meagre and we relied on the people for grain.