Since its preparatory office was established in 1955, the Institute of Modern History (IMH) of Academia Sinica has made every effort to collect historical materials, such as government documents and personal papers, the aim of which is to provide a solid foundation for historical research. Supported by the Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures, the IMH Archives executed two successive digital value-added projects, the Digital Archives and Value-added Applications of Modern Chinese Historical Documents on Economic Affairs Project (2017-2018) and the Post-war Rural Demobilization and Resources Reorganization Project (2019-2020). Through the Rural Demobilization project, the Archives recognized the importance of agricultural production in the post-war period and decided to develop this two-year applied research project, the "Increasing Agricultural Production: Modern Chinese Agricultural Promotion and Added-Value Project." 

The Increasing Agricultural Production Project is a digital added-value project with the Agricultural Promotion Commission files in the IMH Archives as its research subject that examines issues related to increases in food production and agricultural development in modern China. The axis of time spans 1940-1949, covering agriculture promotion-related work funding, financial statements, personnel appointments, and promotion information for the 26 areas in China during and after the War of Resistance Against Japan. The aim is to firstly sort the materials and then classify, calculate and annotate them. There are four sub-projects, researching the topics of social networks, rural village economy, agricultural promotion, and agricultural science. Secondly, already-established social network analysis data will continue to be renewed and upgraded to widen its view and the Agricultural Salary Databank will be restructured to allow browsing and searching. ASCDC's Open Museum will also be used to provide interpretive focus through digital exhibits, allowing online open access and fully bringing into play the research platform function.  

The research trend in Digital Humanities at present is writing down and analyzing the contents described in traditional archives and then moving in the direction of Big Data to facilitate application. In addition to data on food and manpower for all China's provinces, the Agricultural Promotion Commission Archives also have a significant amount of information on agricultural promotion, talent promotion, demotion, etc. The research team and IMH staff will use metadata column analysis and sorting to mark the significant data, key words, personal names, and geographical information in the archives, trying to go in the direction of Linked Open Data (LOD) and, ultimately, to display the analysis of agricultural promotion in each city, county, area, and province, and observe changes in personnel, events and objects in the wartime period and post-war demobilization period, and use these in a comparison with traditional quantitative analysis. This will represent an original approach to the study of economic history. The core aims of Digital Humanities are nothing else but collecting, teaching, research, and display. This project aims to combine a simple databank with tools such as social network analysis, functional equations, and added-value charts to allow it to evolve into a more mature knowledge bank.