The Runing Water Business In Guangzhou And City Modernization Between Late Qing Dynasty And The Republic Of China

Guangzhou is the city, which have traditional ancient old culture andmodernization breathing. Its development of water mode also receives this kind ofdual characteristic. Guangzhou in ancient times, its traditional water mode is wellwater and digs a well whose irrigation combines together. After getting into modernage, the development of the city more early and develop more quickly than othercities at the national scope, so the usage of the water also gradually gets into modern.Water is like a human body for blood to the city. The running water of amplehygiene supply is one of basic requests in civilization city live, and it also is animportance symbolize of city modernization. Guangzhou is gradually pushed forwardwith city modernization, and its running water business starts in late Qing Dynastyand develops in the period of Republic of China. Because of various subjective factor,its development road is twists and hard.This text will research on at that time expect the development and change ofrunning water business in. Guangzhou during late Qing Dynasty and Republic ofChina(from 1905-1949). At first, introducing simply to ancient Guangzhou's watercircumstance, then analyzing Guangzhou running water business three developmentstages of the late Qing Dynasty and republic period: In the End, this text analyzed therelationship between running water business during late Qing Dynasty and republicperiod with and Guangzhou city modernization.In short, in this paper, on the basic of our predecessors' study, from the macroperspective, the author attempts to propose a more comprehensive and systematicreview to the running water business in Guangzhou in the period of late Qing Dynastyand republic of China, thereby providing some help for well understanding the historyof Guangzhou.