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218:, most of the NRC's geologists and engineers remained in mainland China and worked for the newly-founded People's Republic of China. The Yumen Oil Field, one of the NRC's major projects, was peacefully transferred to the PRC government. Fifteen members of the NRC were invited to the Central Finance and Economy Commission, the government organ which handled national economic planning and construction management during the transitional Government Administration Council. 25: 182:
The National Defense Planning Commission was renamed the National Resources Commission in 1935 to reflect its role beyond defense-related industries. It soon grew into a large bureaucracy that was involved in managing a large state-owned industrial sector and in coordinating foreign trade. By 1947,
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The National Resources Commission was particularly interested in surveying and exploiting natural minerals and ores, and succeeded in importing entire industrial plants and sending its personnel to train abroad. The engineers of the National Resources Commission were influenced by
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and tied the need for economic "reconstruction" with national defense. The NRC successfully moved major industries into the Chinese interior when the Nationalist Government under Chiang Kai-shek retreated to
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that existed from 1932 to 1952 and was responsible for industrial development and the management of public enterprises. It was staffed entirely by technocrats who reported directly to the Nationalist leader
208:(the National Defense Planning Commission had made the first ever engineering survey of the site in 1932), though the project would not come to fruition until the 1990s. 221:
The Republic of China government on Taiwan abolished the NRC in 1952. It functions were overtaken by the Council on U.S. Aid and the Industrial Development Commission.
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it had a staff of 33,000 who supervised 230,000 workers, mostly in public enterprises. Due mainly to the nationalization major industries by the
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in 1931. Its immediate goal was to design and implement defense-related industries to make China self-sufficient in impending war with Japan.
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Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization
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Building for Oil: Daqing and the Formation of the Chinese Socialist State
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The National Resources Commission was originally formed as the
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