曹廷杰是近代史上十分引人注目的人物。他的爱国激情和对东北边疆史地的深湛造诣,向为人们所称道。同时,曹廷杰还十分注重发展东北边疆地区的经济,以期富国强兵,增强抵抗沙俄的实力。早在光绪十二年三月(1886年4月),曹廷杰在考察俄境归来后所上《条陈十六事》中,即提出在吉江二省“分界屯垦以实边御夷”和开采金矿,“贱入贵出,以寓国强兵”的建议。并强调指出:“有矿之处不惟利足以实边储,抑力足以御外侮”。十年之后,作为这一思想的实践,曹廷杰又亲自主持勘查和筹建了都鲁河金矿。虽然曹廷杰经营都鲁河金矿的时间并不长,前后只有短短的三年,就因被沙俄占领而告失败,但对其仍有考察的 Cao Tingjie is a very striking figure in modern history. His patriotic passion and profound knowledge of the history and land in the northeast borderland have been praised by people. At the same time, Cao Tingjie also paid great attention to developing the economy of the northeast border areas in the hope of making the rich and the powerful, and strengthening the resistance to tsarist Russia. As early as the 12th year of Emperor Guangxu (April 1886), after studying the return of Russia to Cuba, Cao Tingjie put forward the proposal of “cutting off ten settlements to solidify the border with Yi” and mining Gold mine, “cheap into expensive, to make the country strong” proposal. And stressed: “There is not enough money to mine the mine side enough storage, enough power to resist foreign aggression.” Ten years later, as a practice of this thought, Cao Tingjie personally presided over the exploration and preparation of the Duru River gold mine. Although Cao Ting-ji’s operation of the Duluhe Gold Mine did not take long, it took only a short period of three years before it failed because of the occupation by Tsarist Russia. However,