清末,清政府主要针对传统盐政“省自为政”的弊端,进行了一场以财政为本位,以中央集权为核心的改革。熊希龄作为晚清颇具才干的经济官员,积极为这场改革建言献策,倡言设立盐政大臣,维护督办盐政章程,推动了中国盐务的早期现代化。 In the late Qing Dynasty, the Qing government mainly aimed at the drawbacks of the traditional salt politics and “self-serving politics”, and carried out a reform centered on fiscal standards and centralization of power. Xiong Xiling, a rather talented economic official in the late Qing dynasty, actively offered suggestions for this reform and advocated the establishment of the Salt Minister, the supervision and administration of Salt Charter, and the early modernization of China’s salt trade.