The Chuanjiang Shipping And Socio-economic Evolution Of The Basin

It is well known that before the appearance of modern communication, the exploration and utilization of water transport has been an important sign of economic development. Throughout human development history, communication and transport, as important regional elements, have been affecting the regional economic development. This paper re-clarifies the economic development problems of Chuanjing River and Chuanjing Shipping after Chongqing's opening to business from the viewpoint of the coordinative development of communication and regional economy.Chuanjiang Shipping has a long history of four to five thousand years. It can date back to the New Stone Age. Each dynasty has explored and made use of it. But, as a golden waterway, it is only after Chongqing's opening to business in 1890 that its value has been truly realized. Since then, capitalist countries have gradually usurped Chuanjiang Shipping rights. It is not until the emerging of the Mingsheng Firm in the 1930s that this situation has been improved and China finally regained the Chuanjiang Shipping rights. During the Anti-Japanese War period when China is oppressed by the powerful enemy, Changing Shipping experiences great turbulences and Chuangjiang becomes an important transport artery of the Back Base. And its status as the golden waterway has been formally established.The flourishing of Chuanjiang Shipping has played a double role in the economic transformation of Chuanjiang River.On the one hand, the flourishing of Chuanjiang shipping causes the originally enclosed Sichuan regional economy to be directly and precipitately impacted by the foreign investment powers. The ever-coming foreign products and ever-flowing domestic products quickly expand the foreign trade. As a result, the commodity structure of Sichuan market has been transformed into a circulation and market system that can satisfy the needs of foreign economic colonization of China. At the same time, this speeds up the evolution from Sichuan economy to colonial economy and turn Sichuan into a material supplying and commodities dumping place. Consequently, Sichuan gradually loses its economic independence and finally is merged into the global capitalist market system and turned an appendage of capitalist economy.On the other hand, the prosperity of Chuanjiang Shipping has objectively promoted Sichuan's regional economic development, though it is a subjective effect of capitalist invasion. In the rural area, the large import volume of industrial products and the large export volume of agricultural side-products trigger the drastic change of rural production structure. To meet the market demand has coordinately expand the growth of the economic crop and the development of sideline industry, constantly uplifting the commercialization degree of agricultural by-products and precipitating the disintegration of rural natural economy and the development of commercial economy. In the cities, the coming and going of large numbers of foreign and domestic productsbring about the prosperity of foreign trade and commercial economy. As the commercial trade is the base of city and town development, it also brings about the development of cities and towns along the Chuanjiang.