南通沦陷前后大生纺织公司的生存因应

The Response for Survival of Dasheng Textile Company around the Fall of Nantong

日本发动全面侵华战争后,中国东部沿海地区迅速沦陷,民族工业亦遭受重创。淞沪会战爆发后,毗邻上海的南通旋遭日机空袭,南通大生纺织公司渐陷生存危局,其既未内迁后方,亦未进入租界避难。大生公司高层议决并与政府沟通后,在南通沦陷前夕选择寻求外商庇护的因应之策,并于1938年1月10日正式抵押给德国蔼益吉(AEG)电气公司,自此“改换门庭”。1938年3月17日南通沦陷,大生公司依靠“德产”外衣与日方周旋博弈,维持生产经营近一年。由于战争造成的通货膨胀和花贱纱贵等因素,这一时期大生公司扭转了十余年来的亏损,不仅偿还了大部分债务,摆脱了债权人的管控,而且获利颇丰,创造了全面抗战初期沦陷区民族工业的“生存奇迹”。

After Japan launched the total war of aggression against China,the eastern region of China quickly fell,and national industries suffered heavy losses.With the outbreak of the Battle of Shanghai,neighboring Nantong was soon attacked by the Japanese planes,Dasheng Textile Company was gradually in a danger of survival.It neither moved to the rear area nor to the Concession.After communicating with the government,the management of Dasheng Textile Company decided to seek protection from foreign businessmen on the eve of Nantong s fall,and the company was formally mortgaged to AEG Electric Company on January 10,1938,and thus the ownership was changed.Nantong fell on March 17,1938.Dasheng Company relied on being“German property”to game with the Japanese side to maintain production and operation for nearly a year.Due to factors such as the inflation,cheap cotton and expensive yarns caused by the war,Dasheng Company during this period turned its losses of more than ten years into considerable profits,repaying most of its debts and getting rid of the creditors control,thus made a“survival miracle”of national industries in the enemy-occupied areas in early period of the Total War of Resistance against Japan.