Abstract：In the early Republic of China, due to frequent floods and droughts in Deng County of Henan Province, the society was unrest with rampant banditry and a large number of people fled homeland, therefore millions of acres of land was barren. In the late 1930s, to ease the pressure in the refugee area, the national government established a reclamation department in Deng County, set up the reclamation area, constructed a new village which 5 000 refugees were gradually transferred to from the flood-stricken area, organized and assisted the refugees reclaiming more than 22, 000 acres of barren land. These moves solved the bread-and-butter issues of refugees, which was pretty successful to relieve the refugees in the flood-stricken area. However, because of the limited condition, the scale of immigration and reclamation was very small, and it was utterly inadequate and limited for the huge number of refugees.

Keyword：the Republic of China;Deng County;refugees;reclamation;