A Study on the Improvement of Hunan Tea Industry during the Anti-Japanese War
Since the end of the Qing Dynasty,Chinese tea has suffered a great impact under the wave of western agricultural modernization,and its international status has gradually de-clined.In order to save the Chinese tea crisis,China began to reform the tea industry.Dur-ing the Anti-Japanese War,Hunan tea industry undertook the dual tasks of serving for the war of resistance and industrial transformation,and its improvement undertakings covered many fields,such as perfecting tea industry organization,improving production technology,promoting tea industry control,and developing tea industry education.After the improve-ment,Hunan tea industry entered a new stage,and exported a large amount of tea in ex-change for a large amount of foreign exchange and military materials,contributing to the vic-tory of the Anti-Japanese War.However,due to the inefficient and corrupt administrative system of the national government and the conflicts of interests between government offi-cials,businessmen and peasants under the economy controlled policy,and the continuous wars,the improvement effect of Hunan tea industry is limited.
Anti-Japanese War periodHunan ProvinceTea Industry ImprovementAgri-cultural Modernization