1920-1939 Shanghai Transport Industry And Population Studies

Transport industy is a service industry which deal with goods carriagefor customers. It can deal with all procedures of the deputed goodscarriage for customers,and stevedore goods,handling insurance,pay taxesetc.Shanghai Transport industry is a service industry aimed to facilitatecargo movement.It with the Customs declaration industy developed duringthe late19thcentury,one on land and one in water,both providedtransportation services for goods pass in and out Shanghai port.These twoindustries with Shipping business,warehouse business and some otherindustries,formed a complete transportation service chain.And became animportant part of Shanghai inport and export trade at one time.Atpresent,the attention of academia about Transport industy and transportcompany is little,and most focused on some historical materials andchorographies.Therefore the investigation of Transport industry,willdeepen our understanding of mordern Shanghai economic development.Transport industry appeared after the modern railway,especiallyafter constructed Huning railway.As the main arterial railways ofShanghai landway outside connection,the traffic volumes of Huningrailway and Huhang railway increased year by year.Benefited from this,business were expanded,turnover increased year by year.Moreover,Transport industy brought industrial materials and agricultural productsfrom other places to Shanghai,and took industrial manufactured goods andother types of consumer goods from Shanghai to other places.In thisprocess, Transport industy played a role of communication,promotecommodity flow and economic development of Shanghai and other parts ofthe country.This article mainly use dossiers of Shanghai Archives, historicalmaterials，newspapers,magazines and chorographies.Investigate mordern Shanghai Transport industy’s scales,operation mechanism and the livingconditions of employee groups,to probe into the internal connectionbetween this industy with Shanghai economic development.The authorconsidered,in the process of railway transportation,Shanghai Transportindusty gradually formed a set of stable operation mode,and played agrowing role by constantly expanding business in railwaytransportation.In order to managed Transport industry better,regulatedbehaviors in transportation,set rules to restricted transport company.To1930s,railway rectification began,the survival foundation of Transportindusty was not longer strong,the line of business graduallynarrowing,development went from bad to worse.