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- Title
From Rural to Urban Areas: The Takeover and Transformation of Chengdu by the Southward-service Cadres from Shanxi-Suiyuan Area in the 1950s.
- Authors
He Zhiming
- Abstract
How to take over cities in the liberated areas was a major challenge for the Communist Party of China (CPC) at the late stage of the Civil War. In order to successfully take over the cities, the Central Committee of the CPC delegated a large number of cadres in the North to the South to guide the task and the establishment of governance. Due to inadequate systematic training at short notice, these cadres were generally poorly educated and lacked working experience in urban areas, and they tended to take over the governance based on the working experience in the North. Taking Chengdu as an example. Although the cadres from Shanxi-Suiyuan Area fulfilled the mission of "taking over" the management of this city successfully, they were still faced with the dilemma. They carried out some measures based on the working experience in rural areas and class line concepts, including the restriction of rickshaw operations, the repelling of employees in the old society, and the rejection of sewage engineering due to the high cost. All those were challenges for the CPC cadres from the rural to urban areas. The CPC has formed an overall thinking pattern with much flexibility and nonconformity in working since 1921, which enabled them later to achieve this transformation successfully and make significant contribution to urban construction.
- Subjects
CHENGDU (China); CHINESE Communist Party; RURAL geography; CITIES &; towns; CIVIL war
- Publication
Journal of Chengdu University (Social Science), 2022, Issue 1, p82
- ISSN
1004-342X
- Publication type
Article