抗战初期,陕甘宁边区和八路军、新四军的财政开支,相当一部分是国民政府颁发的军饷和华侨、国际友人的捐赠。1940年以后,由于外援断绝,边区政府已没有足够的财力购粮,只能全部依靠向当地农民征粮。这使农民的公粮负担迅速由1939年的5万担增至1940年的9万担,1941年更是增加到20万担。 In the early days of the war of resistance against Japan, a considerable part of the financial expenditures of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army were donations made by the Kuomintang government and paid by overseas Chinese and international friends. After 1940, because of the cut-off of foreign aid, the border government did not have enough financial resources to buy grain, and it could only rely on collecting grain from local peasants. This rapidly increased peasants’ burden in public grain from 50,000 in 1939 to 90,000 in 1940 and even increased to 200,000 in 1941.