道光三十年(1850年),包头便成为黄河中上游的水运货物集散地,作为边境贸易城镇的区位优越性更加明显体现出来,光绪五年(1879年)天津洋行买办到西北收购羊毛后,包头皮毛市场功能从产地市场向转运市场转变。民国11年(1923年)京包铁路通车后,两种最经济便捷的运输方式在包头汇集,连接着皮毛的产地市场和终端市场,包头成为北方广大地区的水陆交通中心和最大的皮毛集散地,引发黄河中上游地区商品流通渠道重大变迁。 In the 30th year of Daoguang (1850), Baotou became the center for the distribution of water transport goods in the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River. As a superiority of the border trade town, it was more evident that in the first five years of Guangxu (1879), after Tianjin Comprador acquired the wool in the northwest, Baotou Fur market functions from the origin market to transit market changes. After the opening of the Beijing-Baoan Railway in 1123 (1923), the two most economical and convenient modes of transport were brought together in Baotou to connect the origin and end markets of fur. Baotou became the center of water and land transport and the largest fur distribution center in northern China. Triggering major changes in the commodity circulation channels in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River.