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The International Committee for the Promotion of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (ICCIC, also known by its nickname Gung Ho International Committee) was founded in 1939 in Hong Kong to form cooperatives in China. The organization's nickname and slogan, ''Gung Ho'', means "work hard and work together". ==History== Rewi Alley, Edgar Snow, Helen Snow, and others initiated the Gung Ho (工合 "Gong He", literally "work together") movement in Shanghai in 1937. The movement aimed to organize unemployed workers and refugees, increasing production to support the Chinese people's war of resistance against Japanese aggression. Subsequently, the Chinese Industrial Cooperative Association (CICA), or 'Indusco', was established in 1938. When the committee was founded in 1939, Ms. Soong Ching Ling was elected honorary chair and the Anglican Bishop of Hong Kong, the Right Rev. R. O. Hall to be chair, and Dr. Chen Han Sheng was appointed as secretary general.〔 In 1941, the Gung Ho movement reached its peak: around 3,000 cooperatives with a combined membership of nearly 300,000 people were functioning.〔 They produced more than 500 products for the local people, and a large number of blankets, uniforms and other army supplies for the battlefront. The unique role of Gung Ho cooperatives in the war also won such international acclaim that the term "Gung Ho" became a famous slogan of the U.S. Marine Corps, and entered the English language as a term denoting whole-hearted dedication to a meaningful cause. In 1942, Alley was dismissed from Gung Ho by the government of Chiang Kai-shek.〔 Both CICA and ICCIC suspended their works in 1952. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gung Ho – ICCIC」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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