The Development Of Fujian Post Service From 1911 To 1928

This text regards the postal development of Fujian from 1911 to 1928 as the research object, and gives a specific illustration of the postal evolution of this province and achievement in this historical period by using the relevant theories and methods in disciplines such as history .geography , postal service studying , statistics ,etc. The text analyzes the relation between Fujian post and other two kinds of communication organizations—Foreign post and Civil post and then probes into the reason of its development. It also sums up the existing limitations of this province postal development in order to offer lessons to postal development of today.This text concludes : The postal development course of Fujian during the period 1911 to 1928 is a very important history developing stage in China's modern postal history as well as in the postal history of Fujian. Thus it has a special position in China's modern postal history. Through the regaining of economic rights and the 1911 Revolution in the latter stage of Qing Dynasty, postal service of China leaped ahead towards unification and independent development: The postal service of Fujian , after breaking away from the customs, equaled the stated-owned postal; it was not only administered by the local government, but also managed by Chinese Central Government postal organization vertically . It had made great achievement on many aspects at that moment: its scale expanded and communication efficiency improved; it not only attacked Civil post with the property of feudal small-scale production but also played an important role in resisting the invading of the foreign postal. The reasons for its development was mainly the regaining of economic rights in the latter stage of Qing Dynasty and the 1911 Revolution, and the advanced postal personnel system and the postal protection of Fujian local government. But there still exsited limitation in its development in this period of the Fujian postal service which had restricted its further development.