Late Qing Customs Annual Trade Reports And Western Economy Ideas Input To China

Customs Trade Reports is a kind of important economic data release.The Statistical Department is responsible for editing, proofreading, printing, publishing the reports.The Trade Reports introduced the basic situation of China’s foreign trade by statistical data, text descriptions and drawings, etc. Trade Report has a very important value for study the economic and social conditions of modern China by its widly range of authoritative data and extensive content.In various forms of customs trade report, the Annual Trade Reports is a very important kind. It’s mainly through text description of the way to introduce the basic situation of foreign trade,and some important economic problems were analyzed.Since the modern Chinese customs managed by the foreigners, so the trade report writing work is mainly responsible for them. Many of the writer’s economic ideas reflected in the report.In the period of late Qing Customs Annual Trade Report reflects the obvious balance of trade theory. The Customs hope to maintain the balance of trade China by expanding export and to boycott imported. On the export side, the report focuses on the export situation of tea, silk, braided straw, bean, cotton etc, main export products and the existing problems, and put forward Improvement suggestions. On the import side, the report highlights the opium sales situation, analyze the impact of drugs on foreign soil to resist drugs and anti-smoking campaign on the opium trade. The report also on the sales situation and developments in domestic cotton products imported cotton products are introduced and analyzed.The Annual Trade Report attaches great importance to flow of gold and silver, through the continuous improvement of statistics and analysis of the factors affecting the flow of gold and silver to a more accurate grasp of their whereabouts. The report also pay much attention to the ratio of gold and silver, introduces the variation of ratio of gold and silver and the influence of economy, and analyzes the reasons for the change. This reflects the obvious characteristics of mercantilism. The report also very concerned about the issue and price changes of the copper coin, and the use of Gresham’s law and the quantity theory of money for interpretation of economic thought. Some of the problems encountered in the circulation field of silver in the report has been introduced.In order to mercantilism as the representative of the many western economic thought have attached great importance to the development of trade. This idea is also reflected in the Trade Report. The report emphasizes the important significance of trade development, hope to improve China trade conditions to achieve the prosperity of trade, and focuses on the development of trade is closely related to the railways, finance and taxation aspects of content.The modern Customs Annual Trade Report is an authoritative economic publications, received the attention both at domestic and international, so it has become an important bridge for the western economic thoughts spread to the world and a successful example of application western economic thoughts in the east.