唐宋西北人口与经济社会的发展

Population of Northwest China in the Tang and Song Dynasties and Its Economic Development

唐前期和北宋时期,中国西北的人口均呈上升趋势。在科学技术尚不发达的封建时代,人口数量能反映社会生产力发展的状况,唐前期西北也确实是这样,但到宋朝情况就发生了变化,由于西北的民族矛盾尖锐,民族战争不断,造成大量人力、物力损耗和经济社会发展的错位,唐中期以后出现的西北与内地经济社会发展的差距遂进一步拉大。

In the Tang and Northern Song Dynasties,population had been increasing in northwest China.In the feudal era with less developed science and technology level,the population can reflect the development situation of social production.However,the situation has changed in the Song Dynasty,ethnic conflicts and the wars among different nationalities caused a large number of human and material losses,which greatly impacted the economic and social development in this area.Since then,the development gap between northwest and inland became larger and larger.