In the initial period of the War of Resistance, the Kuomintang and Chiang Kai-shek made a number of promises to introduce various reforms under popular pressure, but very quickly broke them one after another.

• 在抗日战争初期，中国人民曾经希望国民党进行改革。以蒋介石为代表的国民党统治集团，在广大人民的压力下，也作了许多准备改革的诺言，但随后又一个一个地背弃了自己的诺言。