答:现在,一般都确认:是1872年创办的继昌隆缫丝厂.继昌隆缫丝厂的创办人是华侨商人陈启源.他出身于一个中小地主家庭,年青时多次碰壁于科场.父亲死后,继承父业以农桑为业.后又弃农经商.在海外经商多年以后,发财致富,于1872年回到家乡广东南海县樵简村创办了继昌隆缫丝厂.中国近代第一个机器缫丝厂产生在广东南海并不是偶然的.广东一带很早就是我国对外贸易的中心. A: Nowadays, it is generally acknowledged that Changlong Reeling Factory was founded in 1872. The founder of Changlong Reeling Factory was an overseas businessman named Chen Qiyuan, who came from a family of small and medium-sized landowners who stumbled at the science fair many times during their youth. After his death, the inheritance of his father to Nong Sang industry .After abandon farming business .In overseas business for many years later, get rich, returned to his hometown in 1872 in Guangdong Nanhai County Qiaociancun founded the Changlong reeling plant .Chinese modern day It is no coincidence that a machine-made silk factory was produced in the South China Sea in Guangdong, a very early stage of China’s foreign trade.