十六世纪到十九世纪初,中国对西方和南洋外贸通商的发展刺激了东南沿海诸省商品经济的发展,增加了国内金属货币量的供应,为资本主义萌芽的产生和发展准备了前提条件。研究这一特殊的历史过程,对于探讨中国资本主义的萌芽;吸取历史经验,坚持对外开放,大力发展社会主义商品经济,均有裨益。 From the 16th century to the beginning of the 19th century, China’s development of foreign trade and commerce with the West and South Seas stimulated the development of commodity economy in the southeastern coastal provinces and increased the supply of domestic metal and money, setting the preconditions for the emergence and development of the embryonic capitalism . Studying this special historical process is of great help in exploring the embryonic stage of capitalism in China, absorbing historical experience, persisting in opening up to the outside world and vigorously developing the socialist commodity economy.