Trade Ｒoutes，City and Industry:
Analysis of the Effect of Shanxi Merchants on the Modern Northwest Economic Belt QIAO Nan
( Shanxi University of Finance and Economics，Taiyuan 030006，China)
Abstract: Economic belt is constituted by some transportation lines which are treated as the axis，some big cit- ies which are treated as the core，the advantage industry which is treated as the basics. It can play gathering and radiating effect to promote economic development. The formation of Northwest Economic Belt was closely related with the Shanxi Merchants’business activities at the end of the Qing Dynasty. In this paper，we plan to discuss the relationship of the Shanxi Merchants’business activities and the formation of Northwest Economic Belt，from the aspect of some parts，such as Shanxi Merchants dredged traffic trunk between northwest and inland; actived city commercial; controlled the advantage industry and so on. In order to understand the role and influence of business- men playing the formation of the Economic Belt. Thus the paper put forward some new thoughts about the contempo- rary economic construction.
Key words: trade routes; Shanxi Merchant; the Northwest Economic Belt
