民国时期天津物价变动原因探析

An Exploration on Price Change at Tianjin in Republic China

民国初期,天津物价总体水平呈缓慢上升趋势,但有波动,特别是20世纪30年代初,波动更为明显。考察其原因,工商业的发展和经济的进步,人们消费水平的提高等,是拉动物价上升的主要因素,自然灾害和连年战争也对特定时期的物价变动产生重大影响。与此同时,西方国家对华经济政策和外贸形势的变化、"九·一八"事变,又给天津经济的发展带来负面影响,也造成天津物价总水平下降。

This paper argues that overall price level in Tianjin was on the low rise in the period of the Republic of China. The industrial and commercial progress and the improvement of consuming level , were the main dominants that drove up the price level, while the nature disaster and the continuous war also had great influence on the price variation in a given period. On the other side, the changes in the economic policy of western countries towards China the foreign trade, the September 18 Incident brought about negative effect on the economic development in Tianjin,curbing the ascending trends of the overall price level.