| The academic study on impact of railway in modern China puts a lot of emphasis on its economic, cultural, political and social active role, but ignores its other side effects. China's railway in the early 20th century, for example, had an impact to inland navigation, and rail transport had a great advantage over ship transport, which is reflected firstly in its convenience. The train has a very obvious advantage in both distance and time. Then there are tariffs, shipping transport costs much more than transport. With railway's dual advantages of convenience and low cost, ship transport has been losing ground to train transport Faced with the impact from rail transport, ship transportation company mainly take the measure of combining with rail transport, which is also advocated by the government. In short, in the first two or three decades of the 20th century, the railway transport had a strong impact on the ship transport, and directly promoted combination of rail transport and ship transport, laying a solid foundation for internal traffic combination and integration. |