The Development Of Baoding City Transportation (1920-1940)

If the city is as a living organism so traffic is the circulatory system of urbandevelopment. The flow of people, goods and information is diffused to the various parts ofthe city.And traffic is an important system to maintain normal operation of the city. Rulers inthe traditional society will join the national administrative areas by traffic system as a whole,through the urban traffic transfer order, through traffic network concentrate human, materialand financial resources by the local to the central, in order to achieve stable dominanceachieves the goal of national unity. The development of urban traffic since the modern societymore emphasis on its functions of transport and economic significance. Urban transportationsuch as capital, factors of production and labor resources focus on city,which providesmaterial basis for urban economic development. Commodity output through traffic system, soas to strengthen the relationship between urban and rural areas, between cities. Therefore themodern traffic become an important part of urban development, and it affects thedevelopment of urban economy and decides the development direction of the city.Thedevelopment of traffic gradually become the forerunner of urban change.The20th century is faster in the development of Baoding city traffic modernization stage,to the front of the Anti-Japanese War broke out the modernization of Baoding city trafficsystem has been basically formed. Urban traffic during this period was composed by twoparts--the formation of internal and external. The intersection of traditional and modernintegrated development of urban transport in Baoding, forming a river, land, air transportthree-dimensional state.While river and land transport has some significant influence on thedevelopment of Baoding Therefore, this article will regard waterway and overlandtransportation as the research key, through the internal and external two aspects elaborate thedevelopment of Baoding city traffic status, development characteristics, and its influence onurban development, thus further illustrate in modern times, the importance of traffic to urbandevelopment.