What is the origin of Guangzhou Thirteen Lines?

Guangzhou Shisanhang is a foreign goods company established by the Qing government in Guangzhou Port, which specializes in import and export trade. It is a semi-official and semi-commercial foreign trade monopoly. In the prosperous period of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, the maritime ban since Ming Dynasty was abolished and the policy of opening Hainan Airlines was implemented. During the period of 1685, with the increasing international business contacts, the earliest official foreign trade professional group in China came into being.

1757, emperor Qianlong announced the cancellation of the original coastal customs, leaving only the foreign trade of Guangdong customs. As a Chinese-foreign trade place under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Customs, Guangzhou 13th Line became the only legal foreign trade special zone of the Qing Empire, where all the trade between China and other countries in the world gathered. Until the Opium War, this foreign goods bank monopolized China's foreign trade for 85 years.

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Historically, the bustling thirteen banks in Guangzhou, as the window of the Qing government's exclusive foreign trade, were once under the jurisdiction of Nanhai County. Silk, ceramics, ironware, Chinese patent medicine and other commodities. Produced in all parts of the South China Sea, it was exported overseas through thirteen lines and became a business card made in China at that time.

Among the "wide goods" exported overseas through the thirteen banks, a large number came from Dubao (villages and towns) in the South China Sea around Guangzhou at that time, such as Xiqiao's silk, Shiwan's ceramics and Foshan's iron pots. Take the textile industry as an example. At that time, the production mode of Sangji fish ponds distributed in towns and villages in the South China Sea laid a solid foundation for the rise of Guangfo silk weaving industry and its sale overseas, and became an important commodity on the Maritime Silk Road.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Guangzhou almost monopolized the prosperity of foreign trade and maritime trade in the whole country, which promoted the silk weaving industry in Guangfo area to a historical peak and became one of the most famous areas in China.

Shisanhang has become the oldest clothing wholesale market in Guangzhou, with Shisanhang Road as the center, and the clothing markets of First Street, Doulan Street, Heping East Road, Dashi Street, Zhuangmao Street, Changle Street and Xinglong North Street are surrounded by a logistics business circle.

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