Research On Rice Trade Association In Shanghai During Early Years Of The New State(1950-1956)

From late years of Qing Dynasty to the early years of the republic of China, part of the upper innovationist from Shanghai industry&commerce and financial industry began to reform spontaneously guild hall and chamber, reorganize or creat new business and trade groups, which is Trade association. Time had changed and the regimes had also been alternated. According to the need of the new era, all walks of life had to be consolidated and reorganized. After the liberation of Shanghai, Shanghai Federation of Industry and Commerce was established, whose mainstay was Democratic Construction Association. Its main task was to receive the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Council of Nationalist Regime, and reform its subordinate trade association, including Shanghai Rice Trade Association. Federation of Industry and Commerce eventually replaced the old Chamber of Commerce, Industry Association, which was a direct result of the policies of the new regime. Both the newly formed Federation of Industry and Commerce, and the restructured Trade Association put the united front first, to become an important bridge for the country to reorganize private commercial and industrial.During the recovery period of the national economy, Trade Association is the primary organization of the City Federation of Industry and Commerce. However, in1953, the City Federation of Industry and Commerce Association began to take enterprises as Members, instead of trade association. Trade Associations then became a professional organization and subordinate unit of the City Federation of Industry. The relatively gentle transformation strategies of the early days of Communist China, to some extent, reduced the conflict brought by the revolution, and also reached to control the market and society. According to the political and economical need of the new regime, it was inevitable for Rice Trade Association to reshuffle, even disappear. This paper mainly refers to the introduction of the development and evolution of Shanghai Rice Trade Association, as well as Chinese Communist Party’s corresponding polices, which shows the change of its organization structure and grass-roots level construction during different stages, and the CCP’s positioning Trade Association, that it had already been the government’s spokesman in the industry, in line with its function transformation. In the paper, it’s also most to analyze the activity profile of Shanghai Rice Trade Association during the recovery period of the national economy, which had played a large role in political propaganda, economic work, business coaching. However, the social foundation for its own survival had been increasingly impaired. Rice Trade Association as well as the rice industry’s socialist transformation is another key topic researched in the paper. It analyzes the activity profile of the Rice Trade Association stepping into the lower form of state capitalism, and after entering the stage of industry-wide public-private jointly operation, how to mobilize the members applying for a public-private jointly operation, how did its members join venture, the capitalist’s spiritual features before and after jointing private-state operation, as well as the existing problems after the jointing venture. Finally, the author would put forward some personal views about the enlightenment; the development of the Rice Industry Association in the early days of the republic takes to the contemporary trade association.Throughout the restructuring process of the Shanghai Rice Industry Association, it can be seen that the Chinese Communist Party always hold the top-down administrative leadership, with the bottom-up mass line as supplement. After reorganization, Trade Association and the government shared consistent stances, which, however, weakened its function to represent and safeguard the interests of the private businessman. Since the late1980s, contemporary Trade Association have grown in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places. Obviously, it becomes imperative to promote the development of contemporary Association, keep this non-governmental organizations more and more mature, and continue to play its pivotal role in the maintenance of the development of the industry.