Research On The Thought Of Wang Zhichun Being Of Economic Reform

The late qing dynasty is the transitional period of China's modern economic reform thought.During this period,the country languished and the people were destitute.In the face of internal and external troubles,the economic reform thought mainly focuses on the pursuit of "national wealth" and "people's strength".The study of western artifacts and various systems has become an important means to realize this pursuit.Wang zhichun was a famous westernization thinker and politician in the late qing dynasty.He not only played an important role in the study of foreign relations in the late qing dynasty,but also his thoughts on economic reform could not be underestimated in the current situation.At present,most of the academic studies on wang zhichun focus on the political,diplomatic and cultural fields,and there is a lack of sufficient attention to the study of his economic reform thoughts and the results of the systematic study of his economic reform thoughts.Wang zhichun's thought of economic reform came into being in the specific background of the late qing dynasty.Wang zhichun's economic reform thought may from his mercantilism thought,the mining industry thought,the currency reform thought and the tax reform thought four aspects unfolds.Wang zhichun's mercantilism reflected his dialectical thinking on the relationship between "mercantilism" and national wealth.Wang zhichun's mining thought is based on the cognition of the disadvantages of traditional mining industry and the "two-way" pressure that the west increasingly covets for Chinese minerals.At the same time,wang zhichun's mining thoughts also went through the change from the early advocacy of "fangying mining" to the later advocacy of "invoking western law and recruiting foreign stocks".Wang zhichun's thoughts on currency reform mainly include metal currency reform and paper currency circulation.The reform of metal monetary system can be embodied as "casting gold,silver and copper money" and "imitation casting gold circle".Under the situation that foreign paper money flooded and endangered the national economic interests,wang zhichun advocated the establishment of the national modern paper money system and the use of machine money to prevent counterfeiting.Wang zhichun's thoughts on taxation reform mainly focus on "abolishing lijin and increasing taxation",and his thoughts on taxation are obviously influenced by western "mercantilism".Specifically speaking,wang zhichun's thoughts on economic reform have the following positive significance and values: first,wang zhichun's thoughts on economic reform reflect the pursuit of ordinary westernization bureaucrats in the current situation to make the country rich and the people strong.Secondly,wang zhichun's economic reform thought has basically eliminated the traditional economic thought.Although his cognition has some limitations,the connotation of his economic reform thought has played a certain reference significance for the reform and reform and the New Deal in the late qing dynasty.Third,wang zhichun's thoughts on economic reform are full of strong patriotism.Although wang zhichun was criticized in his later years,we should not erase such patriotism.