The Research On The Economy Of Xi'an In The Qing Dynasty

In The Qing Dynasty, Xi'an was not only the capital of ShanxiProvince , but also the politics, the economy and the cultural center, and obtained great development, the change of economicalcondition was especially noticeable, which gave us a completely new appearance. This kind of change had deep relation with the entire status and function of the city. The city had already initially become the economy and cultural center, it gathered the region economical superiority, simultaneously radiated the economy influence, which made the city start to break through the triditional conception of the political and military center.To compare with other provincial capital cities, Xi'an city economy has also experienced the process of transformation from destroying to recovering , reconstruction , development and modernization, in the Qing dynasty. But Xi'an city development was different in the Qing dynasty. In the field of commerce trade, during the period of the Han and Tang dynasty, Xi'an city economy was just already comparatively developed thanks to fairly good physical geography environment and history basis. Especially being the Silk Road starting point.it had become an important international trade central city. To Qing dynasty, although the Silk Road trade waned, Xi'an acted as an important role in area trade because of being the area connecting the inland and northwest frontier; In industry aspect, That architectural adjustment had appeared because of area agriculture development and crops kind adjustment;at th esame time, Xi'an industry begin to appear transformation in Westernization Movement period ; In the field of the finance, clean up the earlier stage, development of commerce trade had made the Xi'an tradition finances aspacts such as firm for exchange and transfer of money , private bank extraordinarily developed in the earlier time. Despite the finance developed slow later, new style banking institution target bagan to grow up. From a whole, Xi'an city economic growth has shown similarity of all capital cities, as well as its unique aspects because of geographic location , history basis diversity.The economy takes the role of a master line which passes through the city social life, and changes the city appearance. The Xi'an economy begins to show a digger development from the Qing Dynasty , which makes solid historical foundation for the modern economy. Therefore, "Learns from history" undoutedly has an important practical significance to Xi'an's urban economy construction in today.