Research On The Postal System During The Period Of Beiyang Government (1912-1928)

During the period of Beiyang Government,the postal service has achieved rapid development promoted by General Post Office.For specific performance,Postal law system form progressively,The postal institution construction relatively sound and the development of postal business.In terms of postal law system,fundamentality law named Postal Ordinance was enacted,and the postal law system has been built step by step.Postal Ordinance,not only makes the postal service develop with the guarantee of law,but also sets up standard-operation for the postal service.The framework of the postal system stipulated By the Postal Ordinance,from now on our postal service has taken on the law road.The postal law system has been built and improved day by day,with a batch of organic law and business law revised and enacted.The postal authorities design right organizational institution,management institution,business institution and personnel system.The postal organizational institution based on the postal organizational system,formed the central and the local postal system,severally take charge of administrative matters and business operation.With the characteristics,such as full range,completion,process clearly and operability,the postal business institution stipulate and distinguish different business type according to different standards.Every postal business has corresponding institution.The postal staff group has been divided four classes according to level,every class has its own grades.In order to make postal staff fulfill their duties faithfully and energetically,the postal authorities positively promote postal personnel system construction.Under the concept of awarding contribution and punishing fault,the postal authorities enact exquisite and rigor postal personnel system to regularize postal staff behavior and maintain postal discipline,make postal staff do their best to serve postal service.The complete postal institution provide institutional guarantee for the development of postal service.The period of the Beiyang Government is the steady development stage for china postal service.The certain scale has been showed in the postal infrastructure construction,the postal line network has mainly been covered the whole country,modern vehicle such as steamship,train,car even airplane also has been used to send mails,all kinds of post office was built along the postal line network with expanding scale.Every business has been promoted in varying degrees.The situation of revenue and expenditure had taken a turn for the better is another important appearance about postal development during the period of Beiyang Government.As a public monopoly business,the postal service make astounding advances during the period of Beiyang Government,benefiting from the constantly perfected legal system,the complete postal institution,and the operating activities of postal staff group with enterprising spirit,laying a solid foundation for sustainable development of china postal service.