China, 1955-1960

China Reborn, at least that is what the newspapers claimed. Along the coast and in the eastern fields of China, centuries old farms remain vacant, left alone despite the War of Resistance having been finished. Why? Its because the farms are unusable, and little green has yet to be seen in these places since the start of the war and the start of Japanese war crimes. The only green to healthily dot the landscape is the algae in the pools of water scattered about.

As part of the Japanese invasion, certain plans were undertaken to reduce the agricultural project of China so that way future Japanese colonization efforts might occur. Untold famine was not merely wartime necessity, but a systematic practice by members of the IJA in order to keep China down. The past fifteen years has seen China come alive as the Communist Party has liberated most of China from Western imperialists.

In order to feed a growing China and in order to reduce the risk of famine should Western imperialists impose an illegal blockade on China, these salted fields, left barren, must be revived. While this is not a process that will take mere months or years to achieve, the sooner China starts the process and gets rid of the worse excesses, the easier it will be to reintroduce modern agriculture to the region.

As such, surveys from key universities and institutions across China will be sent to areas previously under Japanese occupation in the Chinese provinces of Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui and Hubei to tally up unusable farmland due to salting from Japanese occupation. Once this survey is achieved, then limited salt clearing using available modern (and probably highly experimental in most cases) techniques will occur on a limited scale, with testing for salinity occurring over a few months. The process(es) that work the best, while maintaining viability for agricultural growth will then be introduced across formerly occupied China en masse to reduce the salt levels to acceptable levels.

Should salinity levels reach, or near acceptable limits in any of these places, then agriculture will resume the next growing season in order to ensure that each plot of land and field is able to live to its fullest potential... while this process will take years, improved agricultural yields in the rest of China will allow for this process to be done without being rushed.