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在鸦片战争之前,上海已有“江海之通津,东南之都会”的美称,国内商业已具相当规模。但当时上海商业就其交易的品种来说,主要是豆饼杂粮、土布、棉花、米、糖、竹木、桐油、苎麻、绸缎、药材等农产品和家庭手工业副产品。根据对上述商品流通量的估算,那时上海年商品流通额在3000万两白银左右,约相当于全国主要商品流通额的7%。那时,上海也还算不上是江南地区的经济中心,真正的经济中心还在苏州,上海只能称“小
Prior to the Opium War, Shanghai already had the reputation of ”Tonghai of the Jianghai Sea and the Southeast Metropolis", and the domestic business has enjoyed a considerable scale. However, at the time, Shanghai Commercial was mainly involved in the transactions of its products such as soybean cake miscellaneous grains, homespun cloth, cotton, rice, sugar, bamboo, tung oil, ramie, satin, medicinal herbs and other handicrafts and handicrafts by-products. According to the estimation of the above commodity circulation, the circulation of commodities in Shanghai at that time was about 30 million taels of silver, accounting for about 7% of the national circulation of major commodities. At that time, Shanghai was still not the economic center of the Jiangnan area. The real economic center was still in Suzhou. Shanghai was only