The Evolvement And Influence Of Traveling Traffic In Modern China

The tremendous changes and turmoil of modern China profound impacted on all aspects of the development of society. In this period, people's traveling life changed from the old traditional ways, cars, sedans, horses and boats to the new and modern vehicles, which is a distinct and qualitative leap compared with the progressive changes of old times. It is the most powerful authentication of the social changes, which have a far-reaching impact on the modern society. So this thesis analyzes the evolvement and influence of modern traveling traffic through the deep study of the historical data, aims to reveal the truth of history and get new inspiration.The thesis is divided into four parts: the first part summarizes the evolvement of the traveling traffic and the reasons; the second and third parts analyze how the evolvement of traveling traffic influence the social economic and daily life; the fourth parts covers the characteristic of the evolvement.From the continuation of traditional traffic, the introduction and development of the modern traffic, the thesis summarizes the profiles. In the traditional society, the old roads and transports which powered by animals, human or natural forces, bear all tasks of people's traveling life. The new traffic in modern China develops slowly and tortuously, so it saves the time and space for the existence of traditional traffic. The thesis divides different kinds of the new traffic transport according to traffic distance, and introduces the evolution from the old soil to the road and highway and the introduction of railway. The evolvement of the modern traffic was the result of the common function of social politics, economic and ideology. In politics, the forced introduction of the big powers and from the Qing government to the national government attached importance to the building of military and national defense, so that the modern traffic developed at the same time. In economics, the disintegration of feudal natural economics and the development of capitalism was the main reason for the evolvement of traveling traffic. The commercialization of agriculture and handicraft industry, the development of mining industry, and the floating population made a quick development of the new traffic, which was quick, cheap, and has high freight volume. In ideology, the fierce revolution of the thought and culture also plays a great role for the evolvement of the traveling traffic. The traditional ideas are broken by series of reform and revolution: the growing capitalist mode of production promotes the popularity of new values and living concept; Western advanced technology and idea also encourage people to change. All of these changes greatly influenced all aspects of people's life, especially the traveling traffic, ultimately became the irresistible historical trend.The evolvement of the traveling traffic had an importance influence to the social economics. Firstly, it pushes forward the development of the modern economics. The import of the new traffic directly stimulates the rising and development of advertisement, repair, hire, monopoly industries and municipal construction, provided the impetus for the development of city economics. Meanwhile, the new traffic made the intercourse of district economics convenient brought along the development of peripheral economics. Seeing from the small area, the construct of the city road drove the development of peripheral commodity economy; while from the far area, the building of the routes for the road, highway, railway, and steamship made the economy boom in cities and towns which the new routes passed through. Secondly, it directly and greatly influenced the modern passenger traffic industry. In the passenger traffic of short distance, modern traffic had set up the modern public transport system, especially had an important influence for the city traffic. In the long-distance passenger traffic, new traffic for example steamships, trains and aircraft shorted the cycle of displacement, expanded the scope of the displacement of individuals, and caused the quantum leap on the number of displacement people. Thirdly, it enlarged the scope and frequented the number of the floating population through strengthening the inter-regional links and improving the passenger capacity. Finally, the evolvement of traveling traffic brought modern Chinese tourism industry into a brand-new phase modernization and promoted the development of modern tourism industry. The introduction and application of new traffic changed arduous and long traditional traveling condition and environment, enabled the development of modern tourism industry possible. More and more modern people regarded tourism as the best way of the recreation.The evolvement of traveling traffic not only affected the social economic aspect, but also proliferated and penetrated into all aspects of social life continuously. Firstly, convenient comfortable and new traffic with the construction of municipal facilities and public utilities, improved the speed of traveling optimized the traveling life, and raised the quality of material life. Secondly, it changed the concept of people's lives. New traffic brought people out of the closed door to open mindset to accept new things. The traditional idea of no-traveling, fixed and static caused by agricultural economy and social development was broken; in the initial phase of the introduction of new traffic, for the Chinese resisted foreign aggression, also with strong feudal superstitions, most people took offensive attitude and strong opposition. With the advantages of the new traffic had rooted into people's heart, social people begun to taking the welcome attitude; Application of the new traffic made the precision clock time brought the life a universally binding, promoted people's modern timing sense; It also brought traffic order in the modern concept and the rule of related civilized language and behavior developed people's awareness of the rules, and affected people's living habits. Finally, the evolvement of traveling traffic also closely linked to the changes of the social. The introduction of the new traffic had promoted the spread of luxurious atmosphere, and to a certain extent, it promoted the noble concept of hierarchy broken and the spread of the equality of men and women thought.Complex modern Chinese nation made the evolvement of traveling traffic in the evolution of a new generation of the old mainstream trend, showing the prominent and unique characters of difficult, regional difference, new and old, china and western things coexisted. Firstly, the introduction of the new traffic, had met the prevention of traditional feudal influenced and the rejection of common people. And the construction of from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic was also not enough. Secondly, the inter-regional economic development of modern China was extremely unbalanced, which caused the updating and development of modern traveling traffic appeared regional difference. In addition, the new modern Chinese traffic had not been popular and full, which provided continued survival conditions for the traditional traffic. It made the evolvement of modern traveling traffic appear the character of new and old, china and western things coexisted.