Cities Modernizing Of Immigrants Of Inside The Shanhaiguan Pass And The Songhuajiang River Basin

The immigrants of inside the Shanhaiguan Pass in modern times is the important origin of the society population in the Northeast of China, is the prerequisite to the formation and development of towns and cities in the Songhuajiang River basin. Under the specific historical circumstance of frontier crisis in modern times, the Qing government, the Beiyang government and the Northeast local authority all gave the immigration cause great priorities, actively pushed forward, encouraged and supported the conduction of immigrant undertakings, thus creating advantageous conditions for the immigrants entering into the Songhuajiang River basin in large numbers in the end of Qing Dynasty. Furthermore, to seek asylum and find a place to live in primarily in this period, the immigrants relocated by the whole family, and the seasonal immigration started to decrease. Not only did the immigrants tend to become the settlers, but also women and children moved out to the Songhuajiang River basin along with the young & strong adults, which caused to form the stable population structure, and the Han nationality inside the Shanhaiguan Pass has also become the principal nationality in the Songhuajiang River basin.Entering the boundless fertile plain in the Songhuajiang River basin, first the immigrants from inside the Shanhaiguan Pass cultivated the wasteland here, which in turn increased the cultivated-land area, made the agricultural economy develop steadily. After meeting the local needs, the grain was processed and the transported, thus promoting the prosperity of regional harbors on the basis of transporting agricultural products and the establishment of the regional commodity markets, which not only turned the castles established for the military defense and the political ruling at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty into the new cities and towns of the modern sense, and many other new cities around the new reclamation center and the mining area appeared. The cities' formation made industry and commerce display the accumulative effects and obtain further development itself. Along with its economical function strengthened, the enhancement of the commercial communication made it possible for the commercial radiation function of this city to penetrate economical, centers of other cities. The mutual polymerization of the cities economical function caused the cities near the first key city develop into the secondary regional economical center, while on the other hand the cities far from the first key city formed the city colony around it as a result of the enhancement of the economical function and the influence of the original political function.The immigrants of inside the Shanhaiguan Pass entering into the Songhuajiang River basin, not only has provided the human resources for the regional economy development, promoted agriculture, commerce and industry development, has laid the population and the economic foundation for the urbanization of the Songhuajiang River basin. The immigration entry even directly promoted the land relations that depend on original administration and management system in the Songhuajiang River basin disintegrating, thus promoting the administration modernizing in the Songhuajiang River basin and the cultural ecology further evolution. From this point, the immigration not only directly promoted the urbanization of the Songhuajiang River basin; moreover it has accelerated cities modernizing. This article, starting from discussing immigration and the urbanization and the cities modernizing, further drives home the function of the immigration in the social economy development and in the cultural exchange and fusion in the Northeast, discusses interaction rule of the immigration and the cities emergence, in the hope of coming up with better solutions to the problems of current population flow, provides experience of promoting cities modernization in the Northeast.