Author(s)

Yimin Guo

Corresponding Author

Yimin Guo

ABSTRACT

In modern times in China, salt policy, like river engineering and qianyun, was regarded as one of the important policies related to the national economy and people's livelihood. Therefore, the problem of salt industry has always been attached importance to by people in the ruling and opposition circles in China, and at the same time, related issues have attracted the attention of academic circles today. Among the problems of modern salt industry in China, the problem of salt merchants, which covers a wide range, is an extremely important field. For more than a century, Chinese and foreign scholars have conducted extensive research on this, involving politics, economy, culture, science and technology, production technology and other aspects related to salt merchants. Especially since the reform and opening up, with the continuous development of economy, research in related fields has become more prosperous. This paper mainly studies the operation of salt policy and the order development of salt production and marketing in modern China, and understands the historical evolution of salt policy and salt supply system in China, which is of great significance to the competition and development of salt industry in China.

KEYWORDS

Salt administration operation; Salt production and marketing; Lianghuai region