Welfare Function And Ecomic Function Of Changping Warehouse System In Ancient China

The grain stock is vital to national well-being and the people’s livelihood, Each dynasties in the history puts it on the important status of the business of administer state affairs well and ensure national security.The grain stock can adjust grain supply and demand of the national and stable the grain market,as well as play an important role in guaranteeing people’s normal life and social stability in dealing with the major natural disasters and other emergencies.At present,there are some problems in the grain stock of our country,such as not clear in storage mode,too large in storage size, defalcate under the warehousing system, the grain stock attaches more importance to quantity than quality.The source of the grain stock problems in our country now lies on the system of both political and business of China Grain Reserves Corporation who is the main unit in the grain stock.The fundamental way to resolve the problems is to change the operation pattern of the CGRC,and let the public welfare returns to public welfare,the economic returns to economic. Chang Ping Barn,as the most important stock system in our ancient society,played a very crucial role of public welfare relief and market regulation.The two functions above also have different role in different dynasties,resulting in different influence in the process of the history.This article means to getting the measures of public welfare and market ancient rulers take, researching the solution of market regulation、the total quantity control、the prevention of corruption in dynasties, then put forward the solutions of letting the public welfare returns to public welfare,the market returns to market of the present stock system.The paper consists of five parts.The first part includes the research background、the research purposes and the academic achievements, mainly introduces the system of the grain stock of our country present and analyse the defects of it,grasps the research purposes and introduces the academic achievements of the studying about the system of Chang Ping Barn.The second part illustrates the development process of the Chang Ping Barn from the origin, establishing, upgrading to maturity, makes it clear about the conception of the Chang Ping Barn, and then analyse the interaction relationship between public welfare function and economic function, making full foreshadowing for descripting the function of the two respectively.The third part elaborates the public welfare function of the Chang Ping Barn in ancient dynasties, to begin with analyzing the ideas source of the Chang Ping Barn system,from the public philosophy thoughts of the ideologists such as Confucius, Guan Zhong,Menci,Mo-tse and so on,and then analyse the public welfare purpose of the embryonic form of the Chang Ping Barn system from Rites of Zhou,and then analyse the idea source of encouraging engaged in agricultural production of Chang Ping Barn system through the agriculture philosophy from Zhouyi.Meanwhile.elaborates the public welfare function of the Chang Ping Barn system in two aspects of relieve and Work-relief,finally analyse the defects of the public welfare function of the Chang Ping Barn system. The forth part mainly describes the economical function of our country’s ancient Chang Ping Barn system. First, we should explain the Chang Ping Barn system derivation in our country’s ancient agricultural economy, then we will know that the idea and system of Chang Ping Barn is the main reflect of "equal distribution" in ancient Chinese economy. Then we explain the economical function of our country’s ancient Chang Ping Barn system in both parts of cereal policy in Guanzi and "Light and Weight theory" in ancient economy. Then we describes the economical function of our country’s ancient Chang Ping Barn system in both parts of market accommodation and increasing the financial income. At last, we explain the malpractice of economical function of our country’s ancient Chang Ping Barn system. The fifth part firstly analyses our country’s current system of cereal storage, then we explain the enlightenment brought by ancient Chang Ping Barn system to our current agriculture in three ways includes improving the security of cereal and its economical function, and its impact on stabilize the market price. We analyse the problems which above have faced, and present a solution which aims to de-administrative by its economical function and de-marketize by its public function.