捐款、认购公债七七事变后,海外侨胞迅速成立了筹款组织,动员各界侨胞捐款捐物,支援祖国抗战。8年中,美国华侨购买“救国公债”、“月捐”(捐出月收入的10%)和“航空救国捐”三项,就达18亿元。1937年7月至1941年,马来亚华侨捐款和认购公债近2亿元。非洲和美洲的华侨较少。但在1937年7月至1938年,捐款达3500万元;古巴华侨捐款6880万元。海外侨胞的捐款,成为抗战中国民政府财政收入的重要补充,也是国家外汇收入的最主要的来源。 After donations and subscription for bonds, the overseas Chinese quickly set up fund-raising organizations to mobilize overseas Chinese to donate money and goods and support the motherland’s war of resistance. In the past eight years, overseas Chinese in the United States have purchased 1.8 billion yuan for “national salvation”, “monthly donation” (donating 10% of monthly income) and “saving the nation by air”. From July 1937 to 1941, overseas Chinese in Malaya donated nearly 200 million yuan to subscribe for public bonds. There are fewer overseas Chinese in Africa and the Americas. However, from July 1937 to 1938, donations amounted to 35 million yuan and Cuban overseas Chinese donated 68.8 million yuan. Overseas compatriots’ contributions have become an important complement to the fiscal revenue of the Chinese People’s Government during the Anti-Japanese War and the most important source of foreign exchange earnings for the country.