THE cloth-making campaign was a great activity carried out to pull through and win the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan (1937-1945). In the northwest of Shanxi Province, with mountains and long winters, local industry and agriculture developed slowly. Moreover, the Kuomintang and Yan Xishan’s troops feudalist rule and oppression, the warlords harassing and looting, and the Japanese aggressors’ destruction impoverished the farmers, wasted their land, and ruined their dwellings. The original small handicraft industries were almost shut-down completely. The local people lived destitute THE cloth-making campaign was a great activity carried out to pull through and win the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan (1937-1945). In the northwest of Shanxi Province, with mountains and long winters, local industry and agriculture recently Moreover, the Kuomintang and Yan Xishan’s troops feudalist rule and oppression, the warlords harassing and looting, and the Japanese aggressors’ destruction impoverished the farmers, wasted their land, and ruined their dwellings. The original small handicraft industries were almost shut-down completely The local people lived destitute