Study On The Sinkiang Fiscalit Investigation And Position Paper By The Beiyang Government

After the great Xinhai revolution in the history of China ended, Beiyang Government was established in1912, which means from now on, China had been governed by Beiyang Warlord. At the same time, Sinkiang also came in the trend of the times, and the revolutionary party in every part of Sinkiang organized and lead Sinkiang Xinhai revolution. After Sinkiang went through a number of wars, as a result, it was Yang Zengxin Warlord got the power of Sinkiang when Sinkiang Xinhai revolution failed, and Sinkiang had been into the Age of Yang Zengxin.As the lifeblood of a country, fiscalit also couldn’t be ignored by Beiyang Government. Facing with such the turbulent political situation and the chaos of social order and the severe economic crisis, in order to make the state machine keep operating and the government keep controlling the country, Beiyang Government ordered the Ministry of Finance to send finance officers to investigate the fiscalit situation in every province at this age, and make the relevant suggestion, which is the base of new finance system establishment. Sinkiang, located in the northwest China, is also the hinderland between Europe and Asia, and it has a long history and many minority nationalities has been living here with rich natural resources. Sinkiang has great historical significance and geographical position and the military position and resource superiority, so Beiyang Government successively sent the finance officers Linjing and Xiebin to investigate Sinkiang’fiscalit situation between1916and1917. After they came back in Beijing, they wrote a report the report and position paper about fiscalit in Sinkiang province investigated by Republic of China Ministry of Finance, the Beijing government investigators in Sinkiang, and sent it to the Ministry of Finance. which was published in the Archives of the Republic of China In January2011by the Second Historical Archives of China. This material has special meaning for Sinkiang study, which records the full and accurate Sinkiang’s fiscalit situation, and also provides new studying material for economy study in modern Sinkiang to speed up the process of the society study in modern Sinkiang. At the same time, the Position Paper in this material has made the advanced foundation for the Beiyang Government’s fiscalit reformation and even the later Nanjing Government’s fiscalit improvement.Being based one the new material; it can study the Sinkiang Fiscalit Investigation and the Position Paper by the Beiyang Government from four parts. First of all, it summarizes the whole society setting; the second part expounds the process of the fiscalit investigation; the third parts discusses the content of he report and position paper about fiscalit in Sinkiang province investigated by Republic of China Ministry of Finance, the Beijing government investigators in Sinkiang; and the last part analyzes the historical significance of the fiscalit investigation.