山西人经商历史悠久,自春秋以至宋辽金元史书屡有记载,到明清时代,山西商人‘简称“晋商)已发展成为国内三大商帮(晋帮、徽帮、潮帮)之首。世界经济史学界把山西商人与意大利商人相提并论,经予很高的评价。 山西商路达数万里,款项可“汇通天下”,从蒙古草原的骆驼商队到扬州起锚出海的商船,从呼伦贝尔草原的醋坊到贵州茅台的酒厂,都有山西人在酿造、出售,在南起香港、加尔各答,北到伊尔库茨克、西伯利亚、莫斯科、彼得堡,东到大阪、神户、横滨、仁川,西达塔尔马哈台、什噶尔、阿拉伯国家,都留下山西 Shanxi Province has a long history of doing business. Since the Spring and Autumn Period, Song and Jin and Yuan Dynasties have been historically recorded. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Shanxi merchants were abbreviated as “Shanxi Merchants.” Shanxi has become the first of the three major commercial agencies in China (Jin Bang, Hui Bang, Chaobang). The economic circle of scholars in the world compared the Shanxi businessmen with the Italian businessmen and gave a very high appraisal.The Shanxi Shangluo reaches tens of thousands of miles and the money can be remittances to the world. From the camel caravans in the steppes of Mongolia to the merchant vessel that anchored the sea in Yangzhou, Prairie Vinegar Square to Guizhou Maotai’s wineries, Shanxi have brewing, sale, in the south from Hong Kong, Calcutta, north to Irkutsk, Siberia, Moscow, Petersburg, east to Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Incheon, west Datal Mahanta, Shiga, Arab countries, have left Shanxi