Double Supports
Chinese Communist Party campaign
Double Supports or Double Support (Chinese: 双拥), also Supporting the Military, Giving Preferential Treatment to Military Families; Supporting the Government and Loving the People (Chinese: 拥军优属拥政爱民), is a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) campaign with the aim of strengthening unity between the military and the government, as well as between the military and the people. It was institutionalized in 1991 with the creation of the National Leading Group for Double Supports.
History
Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army period
As early as the formative period of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, the Chinese Communist Party and Mao Zedong advanced the idea that the Red Army could not exist without the support of workers and peasants. They required the armed forces to care for the people, while the governments and populations of the revolutionary base areas were to support the Red Army and provide preferential treatment to military families.
Second Sino-Japanese War period
During the Second Sino-Japanese War, in order to consolidate and develop the anti-Japanese base areas and expand the Second United Front, the government of the Shaan–Gan–Ning Border Region launched activities to “support the army and give preferential treatment to families of anti-Japanese soldiers,” while the Rear Garrison Corps of the Eighth Route Army carried out activities to “support the government and love the people.” In January 1943, Mao Zedong affirmed the practices of the Shaan–Gan–Ning Border Region and called on all anti-Japanese base areas to generally carry out these activities.
The background to these developments lay in the harsh climate, barren land, and underdeveloped economy of the Shaan–Gan–Ning Border Region. In September 1939, amid friction between the Kuomintang and the CCP, the Kuomintang government halted the already limited military pay and supplies for troops stationed in the region. In 1939, the region had a population of more than 2 million, with over 40,000 full-time nonproductive personnel; by 1941, the population had fallen to about 1.4 million, while nonproductive personnel increased to nearly 80,000. As the nonproductive population grew, the border-region government imposed increasing levies of “National Salvation Public Grain” (救国公粮) year after year.
On 1 August 1937, the Shaan–Gan–Ning Border Region Party Committee issued the “Decision on the Collection of National Salvation Public Grain,” requiring the collection of 15,000 shi of grain that year.
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