论清政府与通怀矿案交涉

On Tackling of Tonghuai Mine Case by Qing Government

通怀矿案发生在1902年,职商阮毓昌由当初官办通化、怀仁(恒仁)等处矿产变为商办,吸收英日股本,私自与之订立合办合同,其中华股虚而不实,极易丧失矿权。阮毓昌随后向清政府奏请开办,企图蒙混过关。随着清政府对外资办矿政策的转变,对中外合办矿业的流弊更加注意防范,清政府及历届东北督抚及时发现其承办通怀矿务的种种弊端,并对矿案及时进行撤销,粉碎了日英借"中外合办"为名,攫取通怀等地各处矿产的阴谋。

The Tonghuai mine case took place in 1902. The businessman RUAN Yu-chang changed the government-run-ning mines like Tonghua and Huairen into merchant-running ones. Moreover, he absorbed capital stocks from Japan and Brit-ain, and signed contracts privately with Japanese and English men. The Chinese stocks were in falsehood and could not play their roles, so the right of running these mines was very easy to lose. Afterward, RUAN applied to Qing Government to open these mines, attempting to get the running right of them. With the change of polices for the running of mines with foreign cap- ital, the government paid more attention to the prevention of deception, and found the various drawbacks of these joint ven-tures together with local officials. Fortunately, these joint ventures were banned in time, which had crashed the Anglo-Japa-nese plot to grab these mines in the name of joint ventures.