Shanghai 's Economic And Technical Assistance To Southeast Asian Countries (1955-1964)

As an important component of the national diplomacy, foreign aid has been an indispensable important position. In the 1950 s, the People’s Republic of China in the treatment of many years of war trauma, recovery and development of the national economy at the same time, took the road to the development of foreign aid, and began officially foreign economic and technical assistance in 1955. Southeast Asia and China is both a historical and cultural origins deep political and economic important close neighbors, but also the new people’s regime to break through the US-led Western camp surrounded blockade, to ensure the safety of national territory and large-scale economic construction of the main barriers. Therefore, whether to consider from the whole structure, or from the geopolitical situation around China, Southeast Asia is the indispensable role in Chinese diplomatic field, also known as the key area of China foreign economic and technical assistance and objects.Shanghai as one of the major industrial bases in China, plays an indispensable role in the history of Chinese foreign aid. Since 1955, Shanghai began to take on the role of foreign economic and technical assistance, to the first meeting of foreign aid of Shanghai in 1964, Shanghai has been formed the basic frame of foreign economic and technical assistance, and laid a good foundation for the later work of foreign aid.Combined with the international pattern and the surrounding situation facing China,the paper analyzes the historical background of Shanghai’s foreign aid, summarizes and combs the formation and development of foreign aid agencies in Shanghai, and the actual situation of Shanghai’s economic and technical assistance in the focus nations of South-east Asia, by mining and refining Shanghai Municipal Archives relevant historical. Moreover, this paper analysis the historical characteristics of Shanghai’s economic and technical assistance to South-east Asia, and evaluates the history development of Shanghai aid to southeast Asian countries from the perspective of subjective experience and objective effect.In the new period, foreign aid is still an important position in Chinese foreign affairs. The study of the history of Shanghai’s economic and technical assistance to Southeast Asian countries, help to clarify the foundation and history of Chinese surrounding strategy, and enrich the perspective and theoretical system of the study of Chinese foreign aid, and also provide useful information and reference for the work of Shanghai foreign economic and technological assistance.