Study On Travelling Merchants In Regional Market Of Lanzhou In Morden

As a revolutionary elements,merchants are the starting point of changes taking place in this world. Travelling merchants are the messengers in the regional exchanges and play a crucial role. From Ming and Qing Dynasties, travelling merchants as a stable market forces, deepened the regional market of modern Lanzhou step by step, and its population size had grown, market power had rised. Travelling merchants become mainly guiding force in lanzhou modernization process.Long history of doing business of travelling lanzhou merchants, reflected the activities of travelling merchants the historical accumulation activities based and a strong history of cumulative coherence.Its expansion in modern, not only marked the nationwide market for radiation Lanzhou expansion, but also showed travelling merchants driving force for the modern increase in Lanzhou regional market. Travelling Lanzhou merchants were widely distributed in various industries, which reflected travelling merchants economy wheeled entirely the Lanzhou regional market.The number of travelling merchants in various industries were more than half,which not only illustrated the travelling merchants occupy historic position in the regional market of Lanzhou, but also proved that with the exact figures travelling merchants had the most hardcore power in the Lanzhou regional market development in modern times. The complexity of the source of travelling merchants, on the one hand reflected the history of merchants operating continuity and persistence, on the another hand reflected the interaction of widely diverse between the regional market of Lanzhou and travelling merchants.Travelling merchants with the membership through professional models, linking three market systerm of Lanzhou, native place and extra-regional markets, based on the principles of market rationality, made the province into which settlers move and the native place as the sales market or the processing re-center position, which greatly promoted the commodity exchanges between the regional market of Lanzhou and the nationwide market. In Lanzhou, the occurrence and development of hookah industry, gave expreesion to the roles of travelling merchants playing in regional market of Lanzhou. Professional model with membership in the regional market helped the groups of travelling merchants stabilized and growing. With the development of commerce and trade, more and more travelling merchants experienced the changes from traders to non-resident and then to settle down. The localizing of travelling merchants promoted the process of further integration into the modern economic life and of urban life, and promotee urban economic development in Lanzhou.Travelling merchants were the frist "west cowboy" of modern China,and they made an important contribution for the development of lanzhou and the west. Western Development is not just belong to the western people's business, it requires the participation of all people across the country. Modern businessmen in Lanzhou, the phenomenon of travelling merchants provides an important historical reference for the current development of the west. Western region should promote the localizing of travelling merchants through the process in place to digest and absorb the energy travelling merchants economic capital and business networks, and internalise the travelling merchants economy into their own economy sisterm.