The Study Of Gansu Mineral Industry In Qing Dynasty

The mineral industry is the most important economy of society. During Qing dynasty, the China's mineral industry had a great step of development and Gansu mineral industry played an important role in this process by its very abundant mineral resources.Based on the development of Gansu economy in early Qing dynasty, the mineral exploitation was activated in a considerable scale. Between the time of emperors Qianlong and Jiaqing, the economy of Gansu mineral industry flourished quickly and reached its high peak in a period, but in not very long it declined. This phenomenon reflected the problems of Gansu mineral industry, lacking of financial support, administration experiences and maturity of system.During the period of Westernization Movement, the mineral industry in Gansu was developed by Zongtang Zuo and his great contribution had brought a short term prosperity for Gansu economy. In the time of 'New Policy', some of mineral factories and schools were built to focus on the policy of 'New Policy'. In none of doubt, the 'New policy' had very important influence on the economic development of Gansu province, because Gansu was in such a remote far land and it was backward.The Gansu province in Qing dynasty main produced gold, iron, silver, coal, sulphur and or so. With the development of Gansu mineral industry in Qing dynasty, the mineral industry whatever in the scale of factories or in the number of employees both grew rapidly by time. But In the late period of Qing period, the mineral industry of Gansu started to shrink by its limitation of developing scope and failure of running. Till pre-modern time of China, the mineral industry of Gansu with slowing step had been lagged far away than eastern part of China.