郭嵩焘经济思想略论

A Brief Argument about Guo Song tao’s Economic Ideas

郭嵩焘作为晚清著名的政治家、外交家和思想家 ,在经济上也提出了一系列远见 ,它们主要包括 :本末并举的富强观 ;倡行厘金与废止厘金的主张 ;鼓励私人投资 ,发展民族资本主义工商业 ;改革旧教育 ,学习西方先进科学技术 ;对西方社会经济生活的介绍和探索。这些主张具有鲜明的资本主义经济思想的特征 ,较之同时代人更具先进性 。

Guo Song-tao, a famous statesman, diplomat and thinker in the late Ching Dynasty, proposed a series of foresights economically,which chiefly included prosperous and strong concepts of China , suggestions about rising and falling of transition duty, encouraging private investments, promoting industry and commerce of national capitalism, reforming old education systems, learning western advanced science and technology, introducing and reflecting foreign social economy existence,etc. These opinions which were distinctly characterized by bourgeois economic ideas, were more advanced than that of others of the same age, what’s more, they were also accorded with the main developing trend of social economy of the day.