商部——农工商部与清末棉业的改良

The Department of Business——the Department of Agriculture,Industry and Commence and cotton's improvement in the Late Qing Dynasty.

清末商部——农工商部成立后,大力提倡棉业改良,制定和采取了一些较为现实的改良措施,使清末棉花生产无论在产量上还是质量上都有所提高。当时机器纺织业的兴起、市场需求的扩大、国际竞争的压力、清廷农业政策及改良棉业舆论,是推动棉业改良的前提条件。而在商部——农工商部主持下,棉业改良取得的可观成效,又在一定程度上推动了近代机器纺织业的发展、棉产品商品化的提高及农业种植结构的变化。

Following the department of business, the Department of Agriculture, Industry and Commence was founded. It promoted the cotton＇ s improvement with great effort, drew up and took some realistic measures, and improved the cotton＇ s production both in the quality and in the output. At that time the textile industries＇ start, the expansion of the market＇ s demand, the international competition＇ s pressure, the Qing government＇ s agricultural policy and the public opinion of cotton＇ s improvement were prerequisites for the improvement. But under its management, the considerable result of cotton＇ s improvement also promoted the modern machine textile industries＂ development, the commercialization＇ s enhancement of the cotton and the agricultural structure＇ s change to a certain extent.