据当年在琼崖特委工作的老同志回忆:1922年琼东县创办过消费合作社(按:当年的乐会县和琼东县于1958年合并为琼海县)。当时的情况是:1919年五四运动的暴发,促使海南人民的觉醒。随着反帝反封建斗争深入发展,新思想、新文化也随着在海南地区传播。1921年中国共产党诞生后,海南的革命师生宣传 According to the old comrades working in the Qiongya special committee in those days, they recalled that Qiaodong County had founded a consumer cooperative in 1922 (at the time, Lehui County and Qiongdong County were merged into Qionghai County in 1958). The situation at that time was: the outbreak of the May 4 Movement in 1919, which prompted the awakening of Hainan’s people. With the further development of the anti-imperialism and anti-feudal struggles, new ideas and new cultures have also been disseminated in Hainan. After the birth of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921, revolutionary teachers and students in Hainan publicized