作为中间阶层的地方实力派，尽管他们的对日关系很复杂，但总的倾向是抗日的。全面抗战爆发前，地方实力派对阻止日本的侵略起了主要的作用；全面抗战开始后，他们又成为国民党正面战场上的一支重要力量。但是，蒋介石集团消灭异己政策在一定程度上制约了地方实力派抗日作用的充分发挥 As a middle-class local power group, although their relations with Japan are complex, the general tendency is anti-Japanese. Before the full-scale anti-Japanese war broke out, the local strength factions played a major role in preventing Japanese aggression. After the full-scale war of resistance began, they became an important force in the front of the KMT. However, the Chiang Kai-shek clique’s elimination of dissidents policy has to a certain extent restricted the full development of the role of local power in resistance to Japan