The Ministry of Posts and Communications or Youchuanbu
[Chen Zhongping. ]
Modern China's Network Revolution: Chambers of Commerce and Sociopolitical Change in the Early Twentieth Century
', p. 152. Stanford University Press, 2011. . () was a late
Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-spea ...
ministry responsible for mail and telecommunications and for the
Chinese rail network.
It was established in 1906 through the unification of the
Imperial Railroad of North China and other railroads with the postal administration and the recently nationalized
Imperial Chinese Telegraph Administration
The Imperial Telegraph Administration (ITA; )Harwit, Eric. China's Telecommunications Revolution', p. 28. Oxford University Press, 2008. . or Imperial Chinese Telegraph Administration (ICTA)Chiba, Masashi.. ''Socio-Economic History Society'', Vol. ...
.
[Harwit, Eric. ]
China's Telecommunications Revolution
', p. 28. Oxford University Press, 2008. .
In 1908, it founded the
Bank of Communications
Bank of Communications Limited (BoComm) (; often abbreviated as ), is the fifth-largest bank in mainland China.
Established in 1908, the Bank of Communications claims a long history in China and is one of the banks to have issued banknotes in mo ...
to redeem the
Beijing–Hankou Railway from its Belgian concessionaires. The bank was also intended to unify funding for steamship lines, railways, and telegraph and postal facilities. After the establishment of the
Central Bank of China
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in 1928, the Bank of Communications was used to fund general industrial development.
After the 1911 revolution gave its name to the
Communications Clique
The Communications Clique () was a powerful interest group of politicians, bureaucrats, technocrats, businessmen, engineers, and labour unionists in China's Beiyang government (1912-1928). It is also known as the Cantonese Clique because many of it ...
during the
Warlord Era.
See also
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History of rail transport in China :''This article is part of the history of rail transport by country series.''
The history of rail transport in China began in the late nineteenth century during the Qing dynasty. Since then, it has become one of the largest rail networks in the wor ...
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Postage stamps and postal history of China
The history of the postage stamps and postal history of China is complicated by the gradual decay of Imperial China and the years of civil war and Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 1940s. In modern times, postal delivery is handled by China ...
References
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