UNRRA' s Assistance for the Railway Rehabilitation of China

During and after the Anti-Japanese War,China's inland transportation was severely damaged. In accordance with the China Rehabilitation Assistance Program, the UNRRA provided much transportation equipment for China to repair the rundown communication by water and land. Out of the political purpose of controlling Northern China.KMT government planned to use the equipment first on the restoration of railway lines of Tianjin-Pukou, Beijing-Hankou, Beijing-Suiyuan and Jiaozhou-Jinan. After the armistice went into effect, the CCP agreed to help restore the railway transportation in Northern China if the CCP was given the right of controlling the railway lines within the liberated areas. KMT's insistence on solving political dispute by force led to the whole-scale break-up of civil war and railway lines once again became the focus of contention and object of destruction. The ministry of traffic had to change its original plan and used the equipment for the restoration of railway lines of Hankou-Guangdong. Zhejiang-Jiangxi and the improvement of traffic condition in Eastern China.