A Study On Operation And Management Of Industry And Commerce In Sui Dynasty

Yangjian was enthroned, and united the entire nation quickly. In less than twenty years, Sui Dynasty treated the scar of war, and reconstructed the pattern of politics and economy. The community moved towards prosperous in stable circumstances. After centuries' war and turbulence, the Chinese nation received a short period flourishing age. The reason of the prosperous, besides attaching importance to the agriculture, with regards to the operation and administration of industry and commerce, Sui Dynasty enforced quite enlightened strategy, and installed an effective system: developing agriculture to promote industry, developing industry to push forward agriculture, and then economy developed, the social wealth increased quickly. But after Yangguang was enthroned, he ignored the law of the development of economy and community, held wars and treaded down the people. At last, he destroyed the Sui dynasty. The short-lived Sui dynasty showed us a peculiar scene of history, and condensed a developed pattern of aii dynasties in the worid. It stayed a deep regret and let later generations continuously search for something about the history.From this historical case, we can learn the whole industry and commerce developing track of rise and fall in Sui dynasty. Policy takes crucial part in the process of rising. While the limitation of system result in the final failing.This article will use traditional historiography method, doing deep research on historical data, and combine with theory and conception of modern economics, focusing on discussing governmental management and administration of industry and commerce in Sui dynasty, analyze the governmental policies on industry and commerce in Sui dynasty and its influence on economy development, analyze managerial system of industry and commerce in Sui dynasty and its operating mode, which is aimed at revealing the relations between development of industry and commerce and governmental management, and displaying political factors and institutional factors behind the blossom-decline of industry and commerce.The thesis divides into seven parts:Chapter One: The operation and administration of State industry and commerce in Sui dynasty. State industry and commerce had preferential policy and resource, which civilian industry and commerce had not. But there were several problems which State industry and commerce had to affront, such as the rise of management cost, the descending of operation efficiency and the lack of developing drive.Chapter Two: The operation and administration of civilian industry and commerce in Sui dynasty. Civilian industry and commerce flourished with enlightened policy in the early Sui dynasty. But it felled quickly when the policy changed in Yangguang period.Chapter Three: The administration of goods' trade and circulation in Sui dynasty. Sui government cancelled impost, which reduced trade cost and boosted commodity circulation.Chapter Four: The administration of national and overseas trade in Sui dynasty. Sui government encouraged national and oversea trade in order to extend Sui dynasty's influence, which was not worth while in economy.Chapter Five: The administration of currency and prices in Sui dynasty. Sui government pushed new wuzhu money, which changed the long-lasting disordered money standard. And insured silk's value measure status, which stabilized agriculture and balanced commerce.Chapter Six: The influence of the adjustment of property's structure and financial policy to the operation and administration of industry and commerce. The contraction -type finance budget policy held down financial payout and increased income.Chapter Seven: The transformation of profit's circulating of industry and commerce and its influence to the community. Civilian industry and commerce's profits mainly invested in soil, federations and politics.Summary: Overall summarizes the operation and administration of industry and commerce in Sui dynasty, and analyzes its characteristic and historical limitations.