The Study Of Chengdu Car Passenger Transportation During The 1920's

There hadn't been railways and highroads in Sichuan province before the 1920's.Shuroads were so difficult and dangerous that long-distance travel was especially difficult, industry and commerce couldn't develop, culture couldn't transmit. As a result, some knowledgeable people advocate renovating roads and improving downtown streets. After that modern transportation appeared and greatly stimulate Chengdu's economic development and exteral communion.Sichuan initiated car transportation later than most of the others provinces and cities, but in Sichuan, Chengdu was the earliest. Because a large amount of downtown streets and highroads' building centered mainly on Chengdu, modern transportation tools-cars, began appeared in Chengdu .In January of the 15^th year of the Republic of China, Chengguan Long-distance Car Passenger Transportation Company drove its cars from Chengdu to Guan county, from then on, Chengdu turned on car passenger transportation .On the same month, Huada company started car passenger transportation in downtown, it can be regarded as the outset of Chengdu downtown's public traffic. Modern car's appearance just as a shock thunderclap, made people's living style had a different variant.Sichuan, at that time, situated in a warlords separatist regime period, government affairs were very confusedly, and the chaos caused by repeatedly wars, among the defence areas, the barrier very strict, these led Chengdu's car passenger transportation's development relatively difficult and slow. It was the unique...