Research On The Opening And Modern Historical Changes Of Yingkou Port

Yingkou port is located in the south of Northeast, west of Liaodong Peninsula, the north shore of the Bohai Sea. In modern history, Yingkou port has experienced from prosperity to the process of recession. Benefited from favorable geographical conditions, Yingkou Port had developed into an important port of the northeast in the late Qing Dynasty. After the Second Opium War, Yingkou port has been formally opened, the prosperity trade of Yingkou port had made Yingkou's commerce and industry, handicraft industry move towards a new stage of development. Meanwhile, .the monetary system has characteristics of local Yingkou -'a Furnace Silver' appeared. The Yingkou port became the shipping and trade centre of Northeast region, and Yingkou was called as 'the Northeastern Shanghai' at that time. After the Japan-Russia war, the Yingkou port began to decline: The port position of the Yingkou port dropped constantly, the national capital was depressed day by day, shipping industry totally stopped in the late resistance war, and the Yingkou port became a dead harbour.The Yingkou port's rapid prosperity benefited from favorable geographical position, convenient shipping conditions, special products export like soybean and good foundation from earlier port constructions. The ' Dalian centre doctrine ' policy which was implemented by Japanese capturing Dalian totally directly lead the Yingkou port to move towards declining, and the process was accelerated by old government accomplishing nothing on port construction and governance, adverse influence of nature and all previous wars happened in the Northeast region.Modern Yingkou port's opening was the outcome of colonial invasion, the prosperity and decline of Yingkou port brought far-reaching influence to the relative closed Northeast region. The late Qing Government's national power was weak, the Yingkou port is forced to open, so it is inevitable to lose the sovereignty, while its opening brought passive development. Taking the Yingkou port's opening as an opportunity, the closed Northeast region has been brought into the opening system of the international economy and enters modernization with slow paces. Lack of the support of the modernized industry and guarantee of strong state sovereignty, the Yingkou port has been destined to move towards declining. The changes course of the modern Yingkou port has proved again that the sovereignty is the precondition of modernization, while industrialization is the promoting force of modernization.