1. _Duties_: to organize and train the nation's youth with a view to enforcing the San Min Chu I; to lead and unify the ideals, opinions and activities of the nation's youth; to centralize and cultivate special talents, forming a nucleus to serve as a model. 2. _Activities_: to urge youths to join the practical work connected with the war of national defense; to enforce military and political training; to encourage civil progress, labor and skill in production. 3. _Nature_: the Corps is an organization composed of young people and included within the Kuomintang. The Kuomintang and the Corps are one and indivisible. B. THE GROWTH AND THE PLAN CONCERNING THE INTENSIFICATION OF THE WORK OF THE CORPS: 1. _Growth_: Period of formation, July 9, 1938 to September 1939; full establishment since September 1939, when the Central Managing Board and the Central Controlment Board were formed. 2. _Plan concerning the intensification of activities_: Amendment of the Corps Constitution; issuing of general procedures for the carrying out of the activities to various sections; general principles governing the future activities of the Corps. C. GENERAL ACTIVITIES OF THE CORPS: 1. _Organization_: general development of the organization in various localities; calling for new members; regulating the inner structures of the organization; the formation of a selected central nucleus. 2. _Training_: entrance training and normal training; young men's summer camp; training of talented gliders. 3. _Publicity_: periodicals at fixed intervals; the compilation of various collective works; the formation of a committee for publicity. 4. _Social works_: the establishment of a Young Men's Labor Service Camp; the distribution of Young Men's Entertaining Offices in various localities; the work of Youths' Service Associations and Corps in various localities. 5. _Financial assistance_: compilation of Dr. Sun's works on economics; aid given to young men's work for material productivity; planning of business organizations under group management. D. GENERAL DISCUSSION OF THE TWO YEARS' ACTIVITIES OF THE CORPS AND THE PRINCIPLES GUIDING THE NATION'S YOUTH: 1. _General discussion of the two years' activities_: its good as well as its bad points. 2. _Principles guiding the nation's youth_: conclusion. A. THE DUTIES AND NATURE OF THE CORPS 1. The Duties It is two years since the establishment of the San Min Chu I Youth Corps was declared at Hankow on July 7, 1938. From the name, we know that the purpose of its creation is to employ the unified efforts of the nation's youth in the work of carrying out the San Min Chu I. As youth is the vital element in a nation's life and the foundation for all future social and political progress, the Kuomintang has, in the second and present stage of national salvation, especially organized a Youth Corps to reinforce the powers of the Kuomintang by shouldering the following epochal duties: