Anti-Japanese War and the Construction of Chuankang Highway
After the outbreak of the full-scale Anti-Japanese War,the strategic position of Sichuan and Xikang,which was the rear of the Anti-Japanese War,suddenly improved.Out of the urgent need of national defense construction,the Na-tional Government planned ten major transportation trunk lines radiating the whole country with Sichuan as the center,and prepared to build a transportation network in the southwest.It is related to the protracted war of resistance and the peril and death of the Chinese nation.As one of them,the Chuankang Highway had a profound impact on the"War of Re-sistance and National Construction".On the basis of systematically excavating the original archives of the National Histo-ry Museum in Taipei,through reviewing the basic historical facts such as planning,surveying,route selection,construction,and maintenance of the ChuanKang Highway,an in-depth analysis of the phases of the Nationalist government's con-struction of the ChuanKang Highway and its response to domestic,the strategic turning point arising from changes in the international situation.During the construction of the Chuankang Highway,the Chuankang area has undergone a transi-tion from the role of local warlords to the role of"the central government".The delay and corruption in the process of highway construction also profoundly reflected the central-local politics during the Nanjing National Government.opera-tions,especially the limits of the Kuomintang Central Committee's control over"non-core areas".
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