民国时期,西北地区自然灾害频发。其时的中央和地方政府在西北地区救灾方面采取了急赈为主、防治为辅的原则。各级政府基本承担了救灾职能,建立了救灾机构,进行赈款救济、粮赈、粥赈、平粜、蠲免等,辅以工赈,救灾与防灾并行。一定时期内,以救灾机构日常化、救灾手段多样化等尝试了现代救灾体系的建立。 During the Republic of China, natural disasters in Northwest China were frequent. At that time, the central and local governments took the principle of emergency relief and supplemented prevention and control in disaster relief in the northwest. Governments at all levels have basically assumed the function of disaster relief and set up disaster relief agencies to provide relief relief, food relief, congee and food relief, flat knuckleheads and bananas, supplemented by work-relief, disaster relief and disaster prevention. In a certain period of time, the establishment of modern disaster relief system has been tried with the dailyization of disaster relief agencies and the diversification of disaster relief measures.