Editing Chiang Ching-kuo (section)

===Return to China and WWII===
Stalin allowed Chiang Ching-kuo to return to China with his Belarusian wife and son in April 1937 after living in the USSR for 12 years.<ref name=TTWu>{{cite news |last=Wu |first=Pei-shih |date=18 May 2003 |title=Forgotten first lady served as model traditional wife |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2003/05/18/0000211042 |newspaper=Taipei Times |location=Taipei, Taiwan |access-date=7 November 2014 |archive-date=7 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107213907/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2003/05/18/0000211042 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=TPWang>{{cite news |last1=Wang |first1=Jaifeng |last2=Hughes |first2=Christopher |date=January 1998 |title=Cover Story – Love to Fang-Liang – the Chiang Family Album |url=http://www.taiwan-panorama.com/en/show_issue.php?id=199818701038E.TXT |newspaper=Taiwan Panorama |location=Taipei, Taiwan |access-date=3 November 2014 |archive-date=8 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808050742/http://www.taiwan-panorama.com/en/show_issue.php?id=199818701038E.TXT |url-status=dead }}</ref>

By then, the NRA under Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists under [[Mao Zedong]] had signed a ceasefire to create the [[Second United Front]] and fight the [[Second Sino-Japanese War|Japanese invasion of China]], which began in July 1937. Stalin hoped the Chinese would keep Japan from invading the Soviet Pacific coast, and he hoped to form an anti-Japanese alliance with the senior Chiang.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}

On Ching-kuo's return, his father assigned a tutor, [[Hsu Dau-lin]], to assist with his readjustment to China.<ref>Taylor 2000.<!-- Page number? --></ref> Chiang Ching-kuo was appointed as a specialist in remote districts of [[Jiangxi]] where he was credited with training of cadres and fighting corruption, opium consumption, and illiteracy. Chiang Ching-kuo was appointed as commissioner of [[Ganzhou|Gannan Prefecture]] ({{lang|zh-hant|贛南}}) between 1939 and 1945; there he banned smoking, gambling and prostitution, studied governmental management, allowed for economic expansion and a change in social outlook. His efforts were hailed as a miracle in the political war in China, then coined as the "Gannan New Deal" ({{lang|zh-hant|贛南新政}}). During his time in Gannan, from 1940 he implemented a "public information desk" where ordinary people could visit him if they had problems, and according to records, Chiang Ching-kuo received a total of 1,023 people during such sessions in 1942.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}

In regard to the ban on prostitution and closing of brothels, Chiang implemented a policy where former prostitutes became employed in factories. Due to the large number of refugees in Ganzhou as a result from the ongoing war, thousands of orphans lived on the street; in June 1942, Chiang Ching-kuo formally established the Chinese Children's Village ({{lang|zh-hant|中華兒童新村}}) in the outskirts of Ganzhou, with facilities such as a nursery, kindergarten, primary school, hospital and gymnasium. During the last years of the 1930s, he met [[Wang Sheng (soldier)|Wang Sheng]], with whom he would remain close for the next 50 years.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}

The paramilitary "Sanmin Zhuyi Youth Corps" was under Chiang's control. Chiang used the term "big bourgeoisie", in a disparaging manner to call [[H.H. Kung]] and [[T. V. Soong]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FRY0v7AH2ngC&q=h+h+kung+hitler&pg=PA148 |title=Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: China's Eternal First Lady |author=Laura Tyson Li |year=2007 |edition=reprint, illustrated |publisher=Grove Press |page=148 |isbn=978-0-8021-4322-8 |access-date=21 May 2011 |archive-date=12 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412110802/https://books.google.com/books?id=FRY0v7AH2ngC&q=h+h+kung+hitler&pg=PA148 |url-status=live }}</ref>

While in mainland China, Chiang and his wife had a daughter, [[Chiang Hsiao-chang|Hsiao-chang]], born in Nanchang (1938), and two more sons, [[Chiang Hsiao-wu|Hsiao-wu]], born in [[Chongqing]] (1945),<ref name=TPWang/> and [[Chiang Hsiao-yung|Hsiao-yung]], born in Shanghai (1948).<ref name=TPWang/>