- Aims of KMT: implement their rule in China
- KMT thought to guide people by
- fulfilling the Three Principles of the People
- achieving moral regeneration of the Chinese People
- reasserting Chinese Independence
- Methods:
- opposition was suppressed; CCP was attacked by White Terror since 1928
- several reforms were introduced such as
- civil service was modernised
- education improved
- National Resources Commission was set up to develop industry
- New Life Movement: unite and crush CCP, return to Confucian
- Limitation of the government:
- benefitted only businessmen BUT not peasants