Shipping Of Mordenization And Wanjiang Regional Development (1877-1937)

The late19th century and early20th century, Chinese society had undergone drastic changes in the historical period, because of geographical factors, Coastal and riverside areas took the lead in development of the transport, Compared to the inland, more affected. Wanjiang region is also the first developed under such historical conditions, the development of the maritime traffic had led to the social and economic development of the both sides of Wanjiang, also had some impact on social life.Wanjiang is located in prime locations of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the unique geographical location, nexus, and Wanjiang territory of developed water system, drainage network extending in all directions. Mainly divided into four major river systems of the Qingyi River, Chaohu Lake,the Huayang Lake, and Gaoyou Lake. In addition, the Wanjiang coastal harbors lined, these lay a solid foundation for Wanjiang shipping.Specifically,1877Wuhu Opening Wanjiang shipping began modern history, foreign ships had moved into the Wanjiang region to stimulate the development of a national maritime transport, the tortuous development of the national of maritime transport in the cracks in the Chinese and foreign competition. Coexistence and competition between the outer and national shipping, and at the same time there is a conflict. The outer in terms of quantity, or in tonnage on the advantage, but the national of maritime transport in the competition also gain a place. The emergence of the Wanjiang small ship, the Wanjiang interval freight and passenger began to flourish, up to26passenger flights originating from Wuhu,2339km long, another starting and ending points are not Wuhu operating routes18,1359km long. These routes include Wuhu to the cities along the river or surrounding important towns, Wuhu Custom was established of the beginning, firmly in control in the hands of foreigners, to the benefit of the outer expansion in Wanjiang, while also promoting the development of management and modernization of the the Wanjiang shipping modernization.Foreign ships entered the Wanjiang areas, they setted the shipping agencies in Wanjiang along Wuhu, Anqing, Datong and several major towns, the towns originally in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the commodity distribution centers in Wanjiang and the whole Anhui. After the emergence of the Modernization of the shipping traffic, These towns got considerable development, were at the core,and had driven the development of a new batch from the town in Wanjiang. Such as Tongling, Ma’anshan, Chizhou and Xuancheng. They were developed into an excellent port city in the early years of the Republic, played not a small role in the promotion of economic development.Wanjiang shipping convenient to facilitate the foreigners input and output. Foreigners began to access to Wanjiang, they would Wanjiang area a lot of dumping industrial "import" and low-cost acquisition of commodities, the Wanjiang region gradually integrated into the domestic and foreign markets, the the Wanjiang regional peasant economy gradually disintegrated and rural handicrafts bankruptcy, but this stimulated the development of commodity economy objectively, increased the degree of commercialization of commodities, Such as the Wuhu region of agricultural commodity rate of up to50%. The rise of the Wuhu Rice is more closely related to shipping, Wuhu Rice rice source are basically along the county,for most of the rice exported to outside of the province,both rely on shipping. The development of Wanjiang shipping brought change to the two sides of Wanjiang of social life, the general public, rural people in daily life, are subject to the impact of Western civilization. The Wanjiang shipping on the the Wanjiang regional most important impact is a preliminary formation of the Little City.The development of Wanjiang shipping promote the development of the Wanjiang region wholely. Today The development of Little City is still important task of the new period, The so-called "economic development, transport comes first". Development of transport, especially shipping transportation can make use of the natural channel, low-cost, environmentally friendly, there is still some inspiration for today’s development. On the basis of summing up historical experience, and actively explore ways and means of economic development, efforts to build a harmonious society.