 It caused more than 16 million civilians to evacuate far away deep inward China.90% of Ningbo's population had already fled before battle started.Most of China's industry had already been captured or destroyed by Japan, and the Soviet Union refused to allow the United States to supply China through Kazakhstan into Xinjiang as the Xinjiang warlord Sheng Shicai had turned anti-Soviet in 1942 with Chiang's approval.