20世纪初叶到四十年代,甘肃的传统手工业保持了继续发展的状态,尤其是本省原料比较充足的毛纺织业、土布、造纸、皮革等行业显示出了较好的发展势头,有些从原来的副业发展为主业。特别是抗战时期,由于政府提倡和民众生活需要,不仅旧有的手工业发展很快,还出现了一些新兴手工业,使近代甘肃手工业出现了短暂的“黄金时期”。在各种经营方式中,家庭和挑贩经营依然是农村手工业经营的主要方式,市镇作坊、官营和合作社逐渐成为抗战时期手工业经营的主流方式,而且在社会经济和农家生活中占有重要的地位。近代甘肃手工业延续与革新的主要因素是手工业在农家经济生活中仍然占有重要的地位,既可解决农家生活的需求,使手工业产品有广阔的市场空间,又可消化一部分农业生产中剩余的劳动力;国民政府在抗战时期金融政策也是手工业发展不可或缺的因素,银行资本在一定程度上帮助手工业解决了资金困难,给外来难民提供了技术支撑.这些都成为手工业延续与发展的原动力。
In the forties of 20th century, the handicraft industry of Gansu was in well development, especially in the field of the wool textile industry, native cloth, papermaking and leather making and so on in which the local place had adequate raw materials, in some places such industries had developed from subsidiary business to main business. Especially during Anti-Japanese war time,for the advocating of the government and demarMs of the people, some existing handicraft developed rapidly, some new handicrafts appeared that formed the short golden time of Gansu's handicraft industry. Among various modes of business, family and shoulder pole business were still the main form in country, city workshops ,state running and cooperation gradually became the main stream business forms of the war time that took important place in social economy and peasant economy life, and that was the main reason of lasting and reforming of Gansu's handicraft industry in modern time. It could meet the need of country life, and also could solve the problem of surplus workforce. The financial policy of national government of the time was t~e indispensible reason for the development of it ,bank capital solved the financial difficulty, immigram refugees provided skills , all these were the motive power of the lasting and developing and handicraft industry.