Research On Social Environment Of Chiuta Refined Salt Company Development (1914-1936)

In1914, the famous industrialist Fan Xudong in Tianjin founded China’s firstproduction of Salt Enterprises–Chiuta Refined Salt Company, which beganproduction of our country salt history. Chiuta Refined Salt Company production ofrefined salt delicious cheap, than the previous salt purity is high, so it is very popularin the market. However at the time lag system under the background of the salt, saltindustry this new thing facing the social environment is very bad. As a result of saltbest-selling violated salt merchants’ interests, to contend for the market, safeguardtheir own interests, maintain backward cited shore system, using a variety of means toprevent salt production and sales, tried to choke Chiuta Company in its infancy. Thelocal warlords for the expansion of power, raise money, unauthorized interception salttax, and to Chiuta Company forcibly apportion huge public debt, collect all sorts ofexorbitant tax levies, even by the abduction to blackmail money, seriously interfereswith the Chiuta Company normal production and marketing activities, the companysuffered huge losses. Whether the government or the national government of Nanjing,for the maintenance of salt merchants’ interests, ignoring the salt industry, make manyof the limitations of salt enterprises development laws and regulations, make theenterprise development severely constrained. And all levels of government to solvefinancial problems, rack one’s brains for ingenious devices, additional taxes, make saltproduction cost is high, the high taxes become heavy burden.The period of the Republic of China salt business development is Chinesemodern salt industry history research is an important content of. At present, scholarson this subject is still lacks the thorough system research. This article in the previousscholars on the basis, combined with the economic and social history researchmethods, focus on when then government,warlords and industrial policy of refinedsalt merchants, attitudes are analyzed and studied, so as to clarify the period of therepublic of refined salt company development faced tough social environment. Hopethat through this topic research, can make up the history of salt in some weak links, to deepen pair of salt industry history research contributions, and for today’s economicconstruction to provide useful reference.