Modern Chuanjiang Shipping And Urban Development (1840 ~ 1937),

Communication, as a material productive section, is indispensable to. exchange and circulation of commodities. Whether its development or not is essential to the rise and fall of a city. Just because communication directly propels the development of business and trade and stimulates the process of division of labor and exchange. Communication is the catalyst of productive means and economic structure. The objective effect and influence to the change of the mode of production and livelihood are evident in the profit and market rivalry, Situating on the conjunction of the Jialing river and the Yanzi river, The communication situation of ChongQing is very excellent. In the later of Qing dynasty and earlier of Min, The development of modern Chuan River shipping, for example the shipping line expansion, the strengthening of shipping capability and flourishing of the shipping structure, indicated that Chuan River shipping was modernizing step hy step. So further strengthening the position of hub of the ChongQing. ChuanRiver shipping and opening communication are equal to establishing market in some meanings. The development of ChuanRiver shipping results in the west-south area becoming the economic hinter land to ChongQing and expansion of the communication circumstances between ChongQing and those districts, increase of the circulation rate and expanding the ChongQing affecting and radiating region. ChongQing will become the biggest commercial market in the upper of Yanzi River. And its commercial trade will be the most distinguished in the west-south area. By those, ChongQing will establish the position as the center of commerce and finance while gradually translate into a center of comprehensive city including economy, modern science and technology, information. At the same time, those will promote the change of ChongQing major function. The change will result in ChongQing becoming a multifunction city, whose functions are not only in polities, Culture but also mainly in economy. The market expanding, commercial trade and finance developing must lead to the evolution of the mode of productive and life and the structure of economy. So the space frame and social structure would modernizing.