海南岛侨批业发展概略

A Summary of Development of Overseas Chinese Remittance Business in Hainan

从19世纪后期至20世纪70年代,海南岛侨批业经历了兴起、繁荣、衰落到消失的过程。侨居国的社会状况和政策、海南华侨的经济地位、国内外形势、近代金融业和邮政业的发展以及战争灾难等,是影响海南岛侨批业兴衰的主要因素。侨批是侨眷生活的主要来源,也是侨乡经济的支柱,它对促进海南岛侨乡社会的发展,平衡国家外汇等方面起到了积极的作用。

From the late 19th century to the 1970s, overseas Chinese remittance business in Hainan had undergone the process of rise, flourish, decline and disappearance. The social economic conditions of their residing country, the economic status of overseas Chinese of Hainan origin, the situation at home and a- broad, the governments＇ policies, the development of modem financial business and the postal trade as well as wars and disasters, etc. were the main factors for the rsie and decline of overseas Chinese remittance busi- ness in Hainan. Overseas Hainanese＇ s remittance was both the main source of life for the relatives of over- seas Hainanese and the economic pillar for their hometowns, which has played a positive role in promoting the social development of overseas Chinese hometowns and in balancing state foreign exchange, etc.