试论抗战前云南商业的初步繁荣及其历史作用

On the Initial Prosperity and Its Historical Functions of Commence in Yunnan before the Anti-Japanese War

长期以来由于特殊的地理环境及复杂的历史原因,云南地区经济的发展与沿海和内地相比,处于相对落后、封闭的状况。但19世纪下半叶后由于滇越铁路的通车以及社会秩序稳定等因素,抗战前云南商业得以初步繁荣。商号增加、新兴行业出现、商人结构发生变化,并出现了近代化的商业城市,从而促进了云南商品经济的发展,加快了云南近代化的进程。

Due to the special geographical environment and complicated historical reasons for many years,the regional economic development in Yunnan comparatively lagged behind that in the costal and inland cities.However,initially commercial prosperity appeared before the Anti-Japanese War in Yunan because of some factors such as Yunan-Vietnam railway and the stability of social order in the second half of the 19th century.New businesses increased,new industries appeared,and the structures of merchants changed in addition to the modernization of commercial cities,and all these pushed the development of commodity economy and sped up the process of the modernization in Yunan.