On the Development of Heilongjiang Hui People Animal Husbandry Economy in the Late Qing Dynasty and the Early Republic of China

Abstract

The Heilongjiang region has had the advantage of developing animal husbandry since ancient times. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, with the large-scale influx of Hui ethnic groups into the Heilongjiang region, the Hui and other fraternal ethnic groups joined in the development process of various economic industries. Among them, some Hui people are engaged in animal husbandry. However, due to the distribution pattern of local Hui people mainly in cities and towns, constraints from traditional management consciousness, a lack of funds, and unfavorable factors such as the social environment in the Heilongjiang region, the further development of Hui animal husbandry production is restricted. Although the development of animal husbandry has not become the focus of its economic development, it is also worth noting that the production of animal husbandry by the Hui people in Heilongjiang has its own characteristics and had an important impact during this historical period. Through the research on the economic development of Heilongjiang Hui's animal husbandry in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, it is helpful to sort out the objective laws of the economic development of the ethnic minorities in the border areas. This provides certain theoretical value and practical significance for the construction of a new socialist countryside and the construction of a harmonious society in ethnic areas.