Changes Of The Development Of Modern Handan City (1906-1949)

Handan of Hebei Province is located in the south,it is the Jinan region’s political and economic center. After the Opium War, with the invasing of Western capitalism and promoting of late Qing Dynasty social, Chinese society has undergone tremendous changes, gradual disintegration of the feudal peasant economy, a wave of industrial projects, Handan produced some beneficial changes in factors of urban development, and initially achieved by the traditional to the modern city urban transformation. Early 20th century, with the Jing-Han Railroad traffic in the territory of Handan, Handan’s businesses developed rapidly, coal, textiles, food processing as the representative of modern industry began to rise, while Handan business growing prosperity, increasing businesses, increase trading volume, fair trade flourished, trade associations have also developed. Urban construction, the distribution area of Handan city, the industry evolved, inner-city railway system and the gradual improvement of the highway system; public utilities, health care, finance, telecommunications, cultural facilities and has established a series of public utilities play a role; cultural education, the establishment of new schools, the spread of new ideas, new knowledge, teacher education and women’s education also have a lot of development.With the development of modern Handan, living and customs also have changed, embodied in terms of basic necessities and weddings and marriage. However, due to various reasons, Handan development of social change speed is very slowly, there are still many social ills in the change process. In general, the development of modern Handan city is progressive, but lower levels of the city’s transformation, both in the economic, cultural and social life, or in other ways, failed to complete the modern transformation of a good city.