Guangzhou 13th Line Of Instruments System

The document system of Canton Hongs is a series of operation system andinstitutional norms about politics, business and cultural exchange that centered on theCanton Hongs in Qing dynasty. Thereinto, the postal services that set up by thewesterners in Guangzhou and Macao is the important part of document system ofCanton Hongs.Before the opium war, because the commercial trade, religion spread, scientificresearch, tourism and so on, the western businessmen in China trade need to establishofficial or private communication with their countries and its colonies overseas. Inthat context, the western post in China had been unceasing developed and improved atGuangzhou and Macao and became the harbinger of foreign post in China.