| Located in the south of China, Guangxi borders the Beibu Gulf on the south and faces Hainan Province across the sea. To its east situated Guangdong, to the northeast lies Hunan. Guizhou is to the northwest and Yunnan to the west. It borders with Vietnam to the southwest. Guangxi got its short name"Gui"because most parts were under the administration of Guilin County in Qin dynasty. It was given provincial level status during the Yuan Dynasty and in 1949 was reformed as one of China's five minority autonomous regions. Transportation is the integrative product of politic, economy, military and other aspects in ancient Chinese. Its production, development and evolution reflect the course of development of society. According to historical records, the tribe of Baiyue exchanged personnel and materials with central plains from Xia, Shang and Zhou. Since Qin and Han dynasty, the central government started to administer this area. During Tang and Song dynasty, the road network between counties in Guangxi formed little by little. In Yuan and Ming dynasty, the posthouse system was maturing. Bridges and Ferries gradually increased, the transport network developed rapidly. Since Qing Dynasty Guangxi province's transportation network matured, its center was the provincial capital---Guilin, its trunk were Official Road and the Post Road system, its extension were the paths connecting various counties.Communication and transport co-exist. Since ancient times, Xianggui corridor was the gateway to Central China, which is a narrow plain located between Yuecheng mountain ridge and Ocean Mountain. Guilin takes the advantage of its convenient transport. It is not only the political and cultural center, also the commercial center, known as "the capital of Southwest China." Similarly, Pingle and Wuzhou prefecture made use of the convenient position. They were even more prosperous than Guilin. Due to historical and geographical reasons, the development of Guangxi is later than other areas; its level of the economic development gradient is lower. However, the development of market economic has its inherent natural requirements. It is undeniable that the goods relatively developed economy, economic development, a relatively high gradient, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan and other places on the commodity economy played the leading role of the strong. GuiPingWu Dao took the advantage of convenient transportation during the regional exchange with Hunan and Guangdong. A large number people from Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong and other migrants went through the Xianggui corridor and Xijiang channel and settled in. It not only brought plenty of labor and advanced technology, directly promoted GuiPingWu Dao and other regional development of agriculture and handicrafts, but also spread the commercial philosophy, and put an enlightenment to Guangxi local commercial civilization. Therefore, it indirectly promoted the economic development of GuiPingWu Dao. With fertile area and rich resources, GuiPingWu Dao had become the most dynamic economic regions since early Qing dynasty. No doubt, it is the transport facilities and the smooth flow of trade routes that made GuiPingWu Dao got the opportunity of developing economic exchange in a large area, it is the internal driving force of economic development in traditional period of Guangxi, as cannot be underestimated.This paper consults a big deal of related documents and carries out field survey. using the empirical method, factor analysis and other basic theories and methods of history, along with economic geography, history, geography, sociology and other disciplines of theory and research methods ,taking GuiPingWu Dao traffic network as the carrier, taking the Commercial Guildhall in Hunan and Guangdong as the media, on the basis of GuiPingWu Dao regional economic in the Qing dynasty, social and cultural changes for a total duration of study time and changes Guangxi's economic development trajectory of goods and feature in the Qing dynasty, the paper reveals dynamic relationship between business development and the transport.The content of this paper is as follows.The introduction tells us about the aim, the meaning of this selected and predecessor's related general study situation. It introduces objects and method of study. The first Chapter is about the trade route, town, and Commercial Guildhall in GuiPingWu Dao. First, it introduces the transport links within and outside the GuiPingWu Dao; second, it describes the relationship between transport and urban; the third section examines the distribution of House and its business impact.The second Chapter refers to trade routes and logistics in GuiPingWu Dao. The first section discusses the flow of goods and materials such as the main staple grain of salt; Section II discusses the influence of the South Mountain as the economic centers on the Guiping Woodward Road regional business from the of view of logistics. On this basis, it concluded the dynamical factor that affected the business evolution in GuiPingWu Dao in Qing dynasty.The third Chapter mainly discusses the business immigrants and business culture in GuiPingWu Dao. Business immigration and the business culture are active factors in the promotion of the commercial development in Qing Dynasty, which are sustainable economic development of soft power.The Conclusion summers up the dynamic mechanism of economic development of regional commodity in GuiPingWu Dao, the paper believes that the transportation occupies an important position in the regional economic development, which can give suggestions for the regional economic development in the new situation. |
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