Research on Development History of Company town in China

This paper, from the point of time sequence, classifies Chinese Company Town, and gives a brief overview of Company town's causes, process and characteristics etc. in the colonial times, period of national capitalist industry and the Third Front Construction period, and the present situation of preservation. The paper also advocates that the value of Company town, which should be protected as industrial heritage. Company towns, as a special spatial form of the industrial sector, have always been closely related to the development of industry. As the locations for living and working of entrepreneurs, workers and their families, it is also inseparable from its own social economic environment. While the Qing Dynasty 1 had always taken a policy of Seclusion, which limited science and technology blooming, the history of modern industry in Chinese is relatively short; also its development is also quite different from the countries of Western Europe. Chinese Company town are generally could be divided into three types: the first type is the colonial Company town (1840-1945); the second type is Company town in the period of national capitalist industry (1860 -1949); and after the Communist Party seized power, following a period of stagnation, it began the third type - Company town in the period of Third Front Construction (1964-1980).