During the War of Resistance Against Japan

the Japanese devastated and plundered the rural economy frenziedly

which did great damage to the agricultural productive forces of the occupied Shandong province. The farmland was destroyed and a lot of land was enclosed and occupied; the innocent laborers were pillaged and massacred miserably

which caused a serious shortage of labour force. The draught animals

vehicles

farm tools and productive facilities were looted or destroyed. All these aggravated the degree of colonization.