The Japanese plundered supplies in the northeast of our country and shipped them to Japan

On March 1, 1935, in order to plunder the salt of Xilingol League in Inner Mongolia, the Japanese imperialists set up a salt department in Duolun and a branch in Chifeng, and stipulated that in the future, salt shipments to eastern Mongolia must go through Duolun and Chifeng to force taxation. Inner Mongolia salt merchants panicked, and the Mongolian people firmly opposed it.

On the 13th, in order to turn China into Japan's raw material production base and commodity sales market, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs agreed on the "China-Japan Economic Cooperation Policy Outline", proposing that a non-governmental organization China Industrial Inspection Mission be sent to China to encourage China to produce a large amount of cotton for sale to Japan.

On the 16th, the Japanese Coal Company monopolized the Sunjiawan Coal Mine in Rehe to realize its ambition to rule the entire Northeast coal industry. At the same time, it plundered various gold mines in the Heihe area of Heilongjiang. On the 19th, it organized a gold mining company in Xinglong County, which borders Hebei and Rehe, and used machine mining methods to seize 7 gold mines, including large and small backwater.