商路、城市与产业——晋商对近代西北经济带形成的作用浅析

Trade Routes,City and Industry:Analysis of the Effect of Shanxi Merchants on the Modern Northwest Economic Belt

随着重建"丝绸之路经济带"战略构想的提出与实施,对该问题的讨论成为学术界的热点。经济带是带状经济区的简称,它以一定的交通运输线路为轴,以轴上大城市为核心,以优势产业为基础,发挥集聚和辐射作用,带动周围经济的发展。近代,由于以晋商为主的内地商人贸迁西北,使我国西北经济带雏形初步形成。从晋商疏通连接西北与内陆的交通干线、推动西北城市的繁荣、掌控近代西北地区的优势产业——皮毛业等方面,对晋商贸迁与近代西北经济带形成之间的关系进行分析,以帮助我们了解商人在经济带形成中所发挥的作用,从而为当代山西经济融入"丝绸之路经济带"的开发与建设提出一些新的思考。

Economic belt is constituted by some transportation lines which are treated as the axis, some big cit-ies which are treated as the core, the advantage industry which is treated as the basics.It can play gathering and radiating effect to promote economic development.The formation of Northwest Economic Belt was closely related with the Shanxi Merchants’ business activities at the end of the Qing Dynasty.In this paper, we plan to discuss the relationship of the Shanxi Merchants’ business activities and the formation of Northwest Economic Belt, from the aspect of some parts, such as Shanxi Merchants dredged traffic trunk between northwest and inland; actived city commercial;controlled the advantage industry and so on.In order to understand the role and influence of business-men playing the formation of the Economic Belt.Thus the paper put forward some new thoughts about the contempo-rary economic construction.