The Dilemma And Breakthrough Of Guangdong Foreign Trade (1949-1952)

The new regime(PRC)implemented the control trade policy and the protective trade policy represented by foreign trade control and the pattern of China’s foreign trade was undergoing dramatic changes,when the socialist and capitalist camps confronted each other in East Asia and the Communist Party had taken power in the whole country.Guangdong controled the flow of commodities,capital and foreign trade merchants,and managed trade channels and harbors.Those not only helped it gradually get rid of the situation of "second-hand dealers" and completely dependent on Hong Kong,but also accumulated the elements intervening and operating in the international market.The pattern of China’s foreign trade was further changed by The Korean War and the comprehensive embargo of China by the United States.The focus of China’s foreign trade accelerately transformed from capitalist countries to the Soviet bloc,and the center temporarily promoted from the East China to the South China.Geopolitics and wars stimulated the country’s demand.A large number of Chinese goods flowed from the mainland to Guangdong,and then exported to China’s Hong Kong,China’s Macao,Southeast Asia and other regions.At the same time,a large number of goods in the world market were purchased by various merchants and transported to Guangdong through the Pearl River,and then transferred from Guangzhou to other parts of the country.Therefore,Guangdong became the focus of China’s foreign trade,and Guangzhou port channel became increasingly important,even for the trade of all the Soviet bloc.Its trade status transformed from local and regional to national,and even more and more worldwide.Guangzhou became one of the main bridges for the red regime to communicate with Hong Kong and capitalist countries.