Li HongZhang Economic Ethics Study

Li Hongzhang is a typical traditional intellectuals who is in a historical transition period, his a series of economic theory and practice is very important to elaborate the economic ethics in the Westernization Movement.His origin of economic ethics, and associated with the traditional view and the western business outlook. Traditional valuing loyalty in china, materialistic sense, and both righteousness the three concepts and western mercantilism all affect Li's economic ethics.His economic ethics mainly comes from his nearly three decades in the Westernization during the Qing government official campaign reform, his economic ethics is the combination of the study of theory and practice of practice, reflecting his complex ideas Inherent and practical background. Specifically, there are in the country between the rich and the country strong dialectic, the country ride out the dialectical relationship between profits and foreign trade business ethics reflect these aspects.Li Hongzhang who has a very clear historical mission, that is to prolong a crumbling Qing government to find where prescription, he is also very clear that the specific activities, there are basically three areas:political governance, economic governance and military preparations. This is reflected in a core issue is how to achieve a prosperous and powerful country.In order to achieve this political purpose, Li Hongzhang believes that the concept of business through top-down changes to the Westernization Movement as the main economic means, through improved economic status for the training of new Army and stability of the regime to provide support. He recognized that self-reliance and the pursuit of wealth between that country between the rich and the country strong and the dialectical relationship.Li'S think if we are realize the country rich and the country strong, self-improvement in order to be rich first in order to blending stronger than the rich, the dialectical relationship between them is based on the theory of profit made by the utilitarian pursuit of wealth.Li Hongzhang think, the national interest is above all, because all the benefits only in the national interest on this level to reflect its real value, people will be benefited is the benefit for the country exists, the country benefits in the sense of Li has not been reflected in the The protection of its people will be benefited. To the realization of national interests and the way people will be benefited, he think that is to vigorously develop the military industry and related industrial chain, the accumulation of wealth and power, in order to achieve protection of the feudal regime and to a certain extent, the powers of resistance.Since the Opium War, the opening of ports to foreign traders dumping the smooth opening of the channel to China, this time as part of an open economy with a commercial awareness of intellectual discovery, under the military war, hidden in the economic invasion by capitalist powers China's criminal intent, with the West and its economic and technical management of the developed products in the price of aggression against China, quality, technological content, the cost and category on the form of Chinese entrepreneurs to start workshops in the natural economy of goods produced has a very clear Competitiveness.They set up foreign affairs is to promote the Chinese into the Western capitalist commodity factors of production, so the competition is less vulnerable to attack, as the boycott of Western goods and ideas dumped on to make technical preparations.In fact, this is "learning Technology from the Western"concept in the practical application of economic warfare.Relative to the conservative Qing government, Li Hongzhang can be considered a reformist, but with the real system from Western political and economic success of the theoretical basis for reform than the reformists, he is a conservative but full.If the weight is the official Lee Light minli the inevitable result of social roles, then he insisted the body will reflect its Western conservative character.He's economic ethics of these characteristics constitutes his controversial theory topic.Li Hongzhang and the evaluation of the Westernization Movement, and his ethics of economic evaluation is not the same, as an economic ethics, his those thinking of the practice itself has both a certain degree of social and historical background, but also has some thinking and understanding Limitations and impact of individual cultural traditions, and historical circumstances at the time under certain lack of seriousness of what he did but the consequences of serious action.Ethics for the positive significance of his, the his economic ethics of the accelerated process of modernization of China and promote the development of national capitalism has important positive significance.Negative aspects of performance than self-interest benefit for the country under the Guidance of Righteousness Government Commerce as the shackles of national capitalist development, as well as the plunder of the national capital, was not conducive to the thoroughness of the bourgeois revolution, exacerbates the colonial semi-Deepening of the colony.