An inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood, 100 thousand young people and 100 thousand troops were famous political slogans during the Anti-Japanese War. It was the Military Committee of the National Government that initiated the movement of educated youth joining the army and widely mobilized students to join the youth army. The Youth Army has successively participated in major counter-offensives in northern Myanmar, such as Myitkyina, bhamo, Namkham and Lashio, and played a positive role in opening up the China-India highway.

On September 1944 and 16, Chiang Kai-shek delivered an impromptu speech at the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference meeting, saying, "At this critical moment of emergency, the state should first worry about letting educated youth serve the battlefield, because educated youth have knowledge and the ability to judge automatically. If an educated youth is added to the team, there will be ten ordinary soldiers. "

He called on young intellectuals all over the country to actively join the army and put forward the slogan of "one inch of mountains and rivers and one inch of blood, 100 thousand young people and 100 thousand troops" Subsequently, the Kuomintang Central Committee decided to widely mobilize young intellectuals to join the army, recruit young intellectuals100000 people, and form an expeditionary force.

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1September 1944, the national government promoted the activity of "100,000 educated youths joining the army" and put forward that "one inch of mountains and rivers and one inch of blood, 100,000 young people and 100,000 troops". The scheme of educated youth joining the army is adopted: young people who are over 18~35 years old, have received technical secondary school education or above, and are in good health are all candidates; After two years of service, many special preferential regulations for young intellectuals to join the army have been promulgated, such as leaving their jobs without pay; Students retain their school status; Family members of young people who joined the army were given preferential treatment.

For a time, the upsurge of young intellectuals joining the army was formed. To this end, the National Government established the Steering Committee of Educated Youth Joining the Army and the Department of Youth Training Director, which was responsible for the early training of young people enlisted in the army.

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