On April 8, Li Shiqun and Lieutenant General Kobayashi Nobuo, head of the 60th Division of the Japanese Army, signed the "Agreement on the Implementation of the First Phase of the Qingxiang Work in Northern Subei" in Suzhou , then established the Qingxiang in Northern Subei in Nantong Director's Office, thus the work of rural exploration in northern Jiangsu officially launched.