A Study Of Yunnan-Guizhou Regional Market (1889-1945)

Regional market is an organic part of the national market. In China's 11^th Five-year Plan regional planning is placed in an important position. In fact, it has become a guide for China's economic development. In contemporary times the study of regional markets is significant both theoretically and practically. This dissertation chooses Yunnan and Guizhou as a regional market in a bid to cater to the strategic planning across provincial administrations.Based on the theories concerned in history, economics, geography and math, this dissertation explores the variations of the Yunnan-Guizhou regional market. It argues that this market has changed from multi-center parallel to double-center parallel in type. The current study analyzes the interactions between the Yunnan-Guizhou regional market and the other domestic regional markets as well as the games between the Yunnan-Guizhou regional market and international markets. As a result, another model for China's traditional regional markets is formulated, namely, the model of the plateau market cultivation.This dissertation includes seven chapters organized in three sections. Chapter 1 is the introduction, serving as the first section. Chapters 2-6 constitute the second section and the body of the dissertation. Chapter 7 is the conclusion as well as the third section.Chapter 1 covers some basic concepts, and illustrates the Yunnan-Guizhou regional market. Then, a review is made about the existing research involved, and the significance of the present study is indicated. Finally, the originality and guideline of the dissertation are pointed out.Chapter 2 analyzes how the multi-center hierarchical market system came into being as a result of geographical constraints, imbalance in regional economic development and reliance of trading on certain routes prior to the Pass Opening of Mengzi. The multi-center hierarchical market system includes such elements as center regional market, sub-center regional market, and marginal regional market.Chapter 3 analyzes how the Yunnan-Guizhou regional market changed as a result of institutional transformations, applications of modern transportation and information technologies in trading and commodity economy, barriers-breaking stemming from the development of long-distance trading, imbalance in the development of regional economy, and upgrading of central markets within regions. The change led to the formation of the double-center regional market based in Kunming and Guiyang.Chapter 4 analyzes the corresponding variations in rural and urban market structure and the formation of the urban and rural market network from the angle of the change in the spatial structure of the Yunnan-Guizhou regional market. The analysis further illustrates the transformations of the regional market.Chapter 5 analyzes the cultivation and transformations of commodity markets (including the production material markets and the consumption material markets) and component markets from the angle of the system type that the Yunnan-Guizhou regional market belongs to. The analysis further illustrates the transformations of the regional market.Chapter 6 analyzes the interactions between the Yunnan-Guizhou regional market and the inter-regional markets as well as the games between the Yunnan-Guizhou regional market and the international markets.Chapter 7 sums up the whole dissertation, and makes a conclusion about three fundamental factors affecting the transformations of regional market, the temporal progress in relation to the transformations of regional market, and the basic features that the plateau market as a derivation from China's traditional market of modern times possesses.