Research On The Impact Of Railway Upon The Regional Economic Changes In Northeast Of Modern China(1898-1931)

Railway, as the crystallization of modern machinery, steel and civil engineering,wasintroduced toNortheast Chinaat the end of the19th century.Its development led to thegreat changesin the social economy such as industrial structure and urban spaceat theareas along the railway lines in Northest China, This dissertationis devoted to disscussthe relationship betweenthe development of railway and the changes in regioneconomy of Modern Northeast China, from1898to1931.before the9.18incident.Investigated its relationship with the northeast regional economic changes.This article is divided into9partsIntroduction: The review on the history of learing.Chapter1: Overview the transportation system of northeast China in late qingdynasty before railway construction, especially since the opening of its port innortheastern, the status of the three main modes of transport: by sea, rivers and landtransportation in economic development and transportation system.Reveal thebuilding of the railway is the result of the action of home and abroadfactors.Introducethe general situation of the construction process of various railway..Chapter2: Introduce each business situation and the formation of the northeastrailway network after the railway has completed. A research on the modern northeastrailway transportation by sea, river transport, road transport, etc of the means oftransportation, and study their mutual relationship of competition andcooperation.Traffic system of the northeast was combined once again by cooperation.Chapter3: To study relationship between railway and the development ofindustrial and mining. on the basis of the profound changes in the previous chapter, explained for the maintenance of railway system, the operation of railway subsidiarycompanies in the region along the railway, the modern industry began; At the sametime, railway transportation has greatly facilitate the raw material and fueltransportation, and directly led to the rise of industrial and mining. Coal, iron ore etcof Northeast developed a lot. a few main used the modern industrial technology Inaddition, various other industries, especially farm produce processing industrygradually arisen along the railway, oil mill, milling and other traditional handicraftindustry has a new change, began to use new technology and new machines, andobtain long-term development.Chapter4:To investigate the relationship between the railway and modernnortheast agricultural development. The northeast’s land development andimmigration are synchronous, so this chapter research under the background ofrailway construction, the influx of immigrants in northeast China and developmentsituation of the immigrants to the northeast land. On this basis, the local governmentand railway company promoted technology and vigorously agricultural machinery,agricultural output increased significantly, along the railway area,The northeast ofcrops represented by soybean, corn, sorghum, wheat,their commercialization raterapidly increased, the trend of specialization, regionalization was further improved.Chapter5: to investigate the railway and the relationship between business andmarket changes in Northeast of China. Northeast of the network strengthened therelationship of the inland, coastal and offshore market, railway changed the traditionalbusiness path, making commodity circulation network in northeast China toreconstruct. The region along the railway business is more prosperous than other areas.Railwaymake these goods flow to the central city. Along with the deepening ofcolonization and the rapid development of railway transportation, market demand forbean and other agricultural products at home and abroad increased,Iin the regionalong the railway,it has formed the market at the grass-roots level, intermediate andadvanced market (export markets), the traditional self-sufficient in northeast marketmodel began to collapse. Chapter6: to study the railway and the changes in the city in northeast. Astherise of railway transportation, the changes have taken place in the northeastern city.On the one hand, because of the gain and loss in locationadvantage, the new cityrised.some traditional traffic node area nearby railway get a new developmentopportunity. Especially the railway subsidiary city under the factors of railway itselfand powers of imperialism, grow very quickly. On the other hand, the new city andthe traditional city layouted around the train station, under the influence of the railwayand the station, The internal space form changed.Chapter7: to review the relationship between the railway and the regionaleconomic differences. Under the function of various factors, with the economicdevelopment in northeast of modern China, the region has had obvious differences.These differences in different areas have different characteristics, and the railwayfactors has important influence on generation of the regional differences.Conclusion: Made a conclusion to the impact of railway on the economic ofNortheast of modern China.