On Development and Characteristics of Leather Industry in the Period of Republic of China:A Focus on Hunan Province
Although the origin of leather industry in Hunan Province and even the whole country was earlier,the chrome tanning rules of modem China's new tannery began in Tianjin in 1898,while it appeared later in Hunan in the early period of Republic of China.Under the impetus of saving the country by industry and the movement of domestic products in the early 20th century,Hunan leather industry was initially developed.Especially in the 1920s,even under the influence of political turmoil,the joint-stock management appeared in the Hunan tannery industry while some tanneries temporarily stopped production or closed down,the industry showed the development trend of coexistence of machines and manual workshops.After the outbreak of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in 1931,especially after the fall of Nanjing,Shanghai and other important cities for leather industry,with the inward migration of population and factories and the promotion of wartime economic construc-tion,Hunan leather industry,like other textiles,showed an abnormally prosperous developing trend.At the same time,from the perspective of the comprehensive development of China's leather industry in the Republic of China,there were many character-istics in Hunan's leather industry such as insufficient raw materials,lower technological level and strong dependence on raw ma-terials.
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