How many national commercial centers are there in China?

By the end of 2020, there will be 12 national commercial centers in China, the largest of which is Shanghai, followed by Beijing.

1. Guangdong is the province with the largest number of commercial center cities in China.

Second, the national commercial centers along the main stream of the Yangtze River are Chengdu, Chongqing, Changsha and Shanghai.

Three, the conditions for the formation of a commercial center are:

1, surrounded by stable commodity supply areas and sales areas.

2. The traffic there is convenient.

Generally speaking, areas with developed industrial and agricultural production are usually areas with prosperous commercial activities, because modern industrial bases and specialized agricultural areas can provide increasingly rich sources of goods for business.

As an economic department specializing in commodity circulation, commerce is also a bridge and link for the smooth flow of commodities in local departments. For example, China's cities such as Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Guangzhou are both modern industrial centers and modern commercial centers.

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The formation and development of China commercial center has experienced the historical evolution of ancient times, modern times and new China.

In the ancient pre-Qin period, there were some commodity distribution centers in the Yellow River valley where China's commercial and economic activities were developed, such as Daliang (now Kaifeng), Yuji (now Beijing), Luoyang and other places, which were the seeds of China's commercial center.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, some commercial centers began to appear. In the early Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Yellow River valley was the center, and the commercial centers were concentrated in the north and the mainland, such as Chang 'an in Xijing and Luoyang in the east.

With the prosperity of the national economy, the geographical distribution of commercial centers expanded southward, and new commercial centers gradually appeared in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, such as Jiankang (now Nanjing), Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou and Chengdu in the southwest, but Chang 'an was still the largest and most prosperous commercial center in the country at that time.

During the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the commercial centers in China changed further and increased further, mainly in the south. For example, Lin 'an (now Hangzhou) in the Song Dynasty became the largest commercial center in China at that time. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were more than 50 commercial centers in China. In addition to Beijing and Shengjing (now Shenyang), the north has become a national commercial center because it is the seat of Kyoto.

Southern commercial centers are the most prosperous in the south of the Yangtze River, the southeast coast and the canal, and some famous commercial cities have emerged, such as Zhuxian Town in Henan, Jingdezhen in Jiangxi, Foshan Town in Guangdong and Hankou Town in Hubei (now Wuhan) in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

In modern times, from the Opium War to the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC) 100, due to the development of western powers, the commercial centers of China were concentrated in the eastern coastal areas, with less inland and unbalanced geographical distribution. The commercial centers in this period were mainly Guangzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin, Xiamen, Qingdao and Dalian, among which Shanghai was the most prosperous.

Since the founding of New China, in addition to the technical transformation of the southeast coastal commercial centers and the effective adjustment of the commercial and economic structure, the vast inland areas, especially the northwest and southwest regions, have developed industrial and mining enterprises and transportation, which has led to the rapid rise of a number of new commercial centers, such as Lanzhou and Xi 'an.

Moreover, from a national perspective, various provinces (regions), prefectures, counties and even towns (market towns) have initially formed a multi-level business center system. The geographical distribution of commercial centers has gradually developed from the eastern coast to the mainland, and the unreasonable distribution of commercial centers formed in history has gradually improved and tends to be reasonable.