A Research On The Development Of Industry And Commerce And Social Life Change In Anyang In Modern Times (1903-1937)

Anyang is located in North Henan,it has been the political and economic centerof this region far a long time.After the Opium War,under the invasion of westerncapitalism,great changes had taken place in Chinese society,natural economy began tocollapse and the establishment of industrial boom gradually appeared,somefavourable changes to the development of industry and commerce appeared inAnyang.To the early20th century,Beijing-Hankou Railway opened to traffic,then theindustry and commerce in Anyang developed rapidly。Modern industry what was ledby Textile,coal and food processing b,although modern industry in Anyang appearedlater,but it had a higher starting point and showed a trend of sustainabledevelopment,its lewel was at the forefront of Henan.Simultaneously,the citycommerce was growing prosperity, fair trade was also flourished, trade associationsappeared and developed.In this period,the development of commerce in Anyang hadobvious historical heritage,large stores commodity trading was less.With the development of modern industry and commerce, Anyang appeared a lotof changes in social life, especially in the daily life of people, ideas, customs and soon has made some progress,but for various reasons, Anyang social life changed as awhole was relatively slow, the life gap between city and villages or rich and poor waslarge, A variety of social ills appeared in the process of social change, and the sociallife showed some degree of pathologizing. There was a interactive relation betweenthe development industry and commerce and the social life changes in Anyang, thetwo influenced each other.Modern industry improved social life level,but made someunhealthy practices of social life spread rapidly.At the same time,progress in sociallife promoted the development of industry and commerce,but social life ills alsohindered the further development of the industry and commerce. See it in general, thedevelopment of industry and commerce and the changes in social life promoted eachother, jointly promoted Anyang from traditional to modern.