The Research On The Silk Of Production And Sales Of Chongqing Area In Modern Times (1891-1937)

Sericulture as a history glorious of household sideline production in Chongqing area,in addition to increasing farmers'income,it is an important source of government revenue.Chongqing opened the port in 1891,the sericulture of Chongqing began its modernization process.at the beginning of the 20~thh century,the sericulture of Chongqing began to transform from traditional manual filature to steam filature.after the establishment of the republic of China,the national capitalism silk-filature industry of Chongqing area gradually developed,new-fashioned filature factories were established in succession,and assimilated the advanced filature technology from Japan,Italy and other countries,imitated or imported modern filature machine,at once of raw silk of market in high demand,the sericulture of Chongqing entered this prosperous times.During 1924-1925,for the sake of developing,the silk-filature circles of Chongqing reformed the ways of management,organized the silk association,implemented this production-transportation-market jointly venture.Iron wire factories of Chongqing were treated as a backbone,Sichuan silk taken Chongqing as a distribution port,combined The Silk Gang with Chamber of Commerce of Chongqing and other areas sold Sichuan silk,initially formed the internal and external production-transportation-market network,which had a good effect on the silk industry production and sale of Chongqing.The Great Depression had negative effects on the raw silk of Chongqing that is broken out in1929,international raw silk market is sluggish,simultaneously,the raw silk of Japan dumped into Chongqing,the reasons why the raw silk of export of Chongqing was depressed.At the same time,due to the financial order of the republic of China was disordered,the Sericulture market of Chongqing gradually shrinking.the local authority of Chongqing and the silk industry feel like promoting the sericulture of Chongqing so that they set up the Sichuan raw silk committee;at the time of 1933,National Council for the Improvement of Sericulture came to Chongqing for investigation,improved the silk egg of Chongqing area;the same year,national capitalism silk-filature factories of Chongqing,Jiangjin and other districts set up a company called Dahua raw silk trading,unified management and silk reeling.In1936,the field to improve sericulture,the silkworm of manufacturing yard and the silk guidance of institute were established,so the sericulture of Chongqing area was on the rise again.the Limited Company of silk industry of Sichuan was founded in Chongqing,it had overall accountability for hybrid production,silk reeling,distribution.However,with the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese war in 1937,the sericulture of Chongqing area was on the decline.