1949年湖北省水灾救助及对改造社会的影响

Hubei Province's Flood Relief and the Impact on Social Transformation in 1949

1949年湖北省发生了自20世纪30年代以来最严重的水灾,导致1950年灾区出现了严重的春荒。为了战胜灾害,湖北省政府承担起组织救灾的任务;为了恢复和发展生产,灾区各级党委和政府围绕"生产自救"这一中心任务采取各种措施进行救助。这些救助措施的主要特点是:依靠生产搞好救灾,通过救灾促进生产,取得了较好的效果。1949年湖北省水灾救助对剿匪反霸、减租减息等政治运动和改造基层政权、抚慰民众情绪产生了重大影响,并与这些政治运动相互促进,共同巩固了新生的人民政权。

In 1949 Hubei province experienced the most severe flood since the 1930s and resulted in a serious food shortage in spring at disaster areas in 1950.In order to control the disaster,Hubeigovernment undertook the task of organizing disaster relief.In order to restore and develop production,the party committees and the governments at all levels adopted all kinds of measures to carry out rescue around the central task of 'support oneself by engaging in production'.The main features of those relief measures were;to do relief better relying on production and promote the production through disaster relief that achieved comparatively good results.Hubei flood relief in 1949 had important impacts on political movements of suppressing bandits and opposing hegemonism and reducing rent and interest,transforming political power at the basic level and soothing public sentiment.The flood relief got mutual promotions with those political movements and consolidated the new regime together.