The income of the Qing Dynasty was mainly 48 million taels of land tax, 46 million taels of salt tax and 43 million taels of customs duty. Likin is 43 million silver. The other is business income, which depends on the development of emerging industries. For example, in the metallurgical industry, in Guangxu 26 years, the iron output was 25,800 tons, and in Xuan Tong 2 years, it reached 1 1.9 million tons.
During the period of Xuan Tong, the railway mileage exceeded 5,000 kilometers, the annual income was 20 million taels, the postal service was 6 million taels, and the telegraph was 3 million taels. The Qing dynasty began to invest a lot of money in these industries every year. 1895-1911year, the Qing dynasty invested 500 million taels of silver to develop new industries.
Investing 20-30 million taels of silver every year has accelerated the development of industry and commerce. Especially in Jiangnan area, machinery, electric power, flour, silk reeling, textile printing and dyeing, chemical industry, soap, oil pressing, tap water, matches and other companies all developed under the company law of the Qing Dynasty, that is, the Company Law.
1904,65438+/kloc-0,21On this day, the Qing Dynasty promulgated the Qing Commercial Law Company Law. This is the first company law in China. Article *** 13 1 of the Company Law adopts the Anglo-American legal system in legislative principle, and stipulates four legal corporate forms, namely, joint venture company, joint venture company limited, joint-stock company and joint-stock company limited.
In addition, the financial industry began to develop, such as Daqing Bank, which later became China Bank. 1875 The insurance investment promotion bureau started, which opened the modern insurance industry in China. In addition, there was a stock market and futures market in the Qing Dynasty. Because of the fluctuation of the stock market, the Qing court lost tens of millions of silver. These factors are the reasons for the explosion of fiscal revenue in the late Qing Dynasty.