浅论广州行商经营失败的原因

On the Causes of Failure of the Hong Merchants in Canton

广州行商是清政府指定对外贸易的封建商业组织,享有专营权,在鸦片战争前一直主导着对外贸易。但随着外贸环境的恶化、出口商品定价权的逐渐削弱以及交易成本渐次升高等矛盾的日渐突出,其外贸专营权逐步丧失,最终退出了历史舞台。

The Canton Hong merchants were feudal commercial institutions appointed by the Qing government to do foreign trade.They had monopoly and dominated China's foreign trade prior to the Opium War.But with the worsening of the trade climate,the gradual weakening of their right to set prices and the increasing cost of trade,they gradually lost their monopoly and withdrew from the historical stage.