A Study On Commodity Economy In Modern Southeast Of Guangxi

Southeast of Guangxi is abundant in the natural resources, convenient transport, the geographical environment is superior to Guangxi other areas, it connect with Guangdong, the geography position is good, its economic boom in Guangxi has been for a long time. The region has density's population, the plenty of labor force, and it has wide plain, plenty of water resource, fertile soil, predominant in the environment of agriculture, in addition to the exploitation of the region had a long history, the region occupies solid foundation in Guangxi.After the Opium War, in particular after Sino-France War, Longzhou, Wuzhou and Nanning were opened treaty port, with commodities of the foreign countries, the natural economy was bankrupt in Guangxi, with the foreign capital and commodities went into Guangxi, the agriculture of Guangxi walked up the freaky road, increasingly became a capitalist commodity markets and raw material suppliers. Because southeast of Guangxi adjoin to Guangdong and Wuzhou is treaty port, plenty of foreign oil, fabric, yarn congested the market, it speeded up the natural economy disorganization in southeast of Guangxi. The natural economy disorganization made countrymen to depend on the market, on the other hand, it expanded the commodity market, advanced the commodity economic development and the commercialize agriculture by-product. For the demand of market, people began to plant cash crop and contract the area of the food crop, including sugar cane, peanut, tobacco etc, at the same time more and more people began to conduct cinnamon and grow the mulberry. A part of industrial crops were supplied to domestic industry, the others were exported. The productions of these crops were presented the commercial trend and the agriculture commodity economy developed gradually.In modern southeast of Guangxi, weaving industry and making sugar industry were the most important in all of handicraft industries. In Yuling and Guixian, weaving industry and making sugar industry had certain scale, they were the most important industries in southeast of Guangxi, its manufactures exported to the foreign countries and advanced the economic development. Furthermore, the important handicraft industries include: the silkworm industry, laurel oil, china industry, and squeezes the oil industry, etc. Total view, the technique of handicraft industry had a sort of improvement and even made use of new machines in southeast of Guangxi, it improved the product quantity and strengthened the market competition ability of the product. From Ming Dynasty to Qing Dynasty, the handicraft industry mainly was natural economic, in modern times, people change industry products more frequently, furthermore, the employer purchased some machines, hired the worker to spin. Modern industries appeared in southeast of Guangxi, for example, The shipbuilding industry, light and textile industry, chemistry industry, leather industry and so on. But the laggard industry technique, the high cost of product and competition of foreign commodities, modern industry developed hardly and didn't become the modern industry system.With agriculture and handicraft industries more and more commercialize, the district business economy prospered. The sum of trade continuously in town and county extended, the population increased and the market was more and more lively. A business network produced in southeast of Guangxi, the business network took Wuzhou as central state, and Yuling, Guixian, Guiping as second central state, the business network took the village as a unit, all country spread the business network organization. The business boomed in modern in southeast of Guangxi, especially in republic period, many stores increased. Because of the feeble industry foundation, the business development couldn't build on the modern industry, it depended on the foreign merchandise and the other province goods sell into the province, so it did not get away from the old production foundation, it had strong feudalism and speculations, for instance,the brokerage and banks were flourished in southeast of Guangxi. In the other hand, merchants of Hongkong and Guangdong impacted the development of commerce in southeast of Guangxi. They promoted the development of business. They traded in southeast of Guangxi and increased the capitalist of business, improved the business circulation, made the market more close to the international market and increased the kinds of commodities.Although the productive forces developed in the modern southeast of Guangxi, the people still lived in penury. Analyze the people's consumption of diet, clothes and houses, what it come down to is the consumption are not of high level. Their purchasing power was low, a larger proportion of consumption were diet expenditure. On the other hand, market has been more and more closely related with people's daily lives, this was profoundly manifested in the following ways: people economized the diet expenditure, exported grain and livestock, they purchased fabric which imported and sell the homespun yarn. With developing the productive forces, the relation of people and market were more and more closely, the natural economy disorganization, commodity economy took its place.The development of commercial economy in modern southeast of Guangxi includes: the commercialization of the agricultural products was increased, the areas of industrial crops were extended, the industrial development, and the market was very lively. Because the capitalist countries invaded China mostly from west to east, agriculture, handicraft industry and businesses of the southeast region in Guangxi were developed quickly. Compared to northwest region in Guangxi, the degree of the commercial economic development in southeast of Guangxi is higher, the speed is quickly and the influences keep on to today.