Fujian has been one of the most important tea-producing provinces in China since ancient times,and Fujian Tea occupied an important position in modern China's foreign trade.In the 1930s,the prosperous Fujian Tea experienced a compre-hensive decline,which was reflected in tea farmers'switching to other jobs,deserted tea plantations,market shrinkage,and it also fell into unprecedented financial difficulties.In order to revitalize the tea industry in Fujian Province,the Fujian Provincial Government began to provide low-interest loans to tea farmers and merchants on the eve of the Chinese People's War of Resis-tance Against Japanese Aggression,and gradually established a distribution mechanism in which the united tea company and ru-ral cooperatives were the main recipients of the loans.To a certain extent,the Fujian Tea Loan improved the difficult situation of tea farmers and merchants,promoted the revival of the tea industry,and strongly supported the Chinese People's War of Resis-tance Against Japanese Aggression.However,due to various drawbacks such as delays in distribution and misappropriation in the loan issuance process,it ultimately failed to reverse the decline of Fujian Tea.
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