Why is Jiangxi the poorest province in China?

First, due to modern historical reasons, Jiangxi's economy was among the best in ancient times, and its population was the first in the country. It is not the so-called "China is poor in Jiangxi and rich in Jiangxi". Only in modern times, due to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement and the national war, the population dropped sharply. The so-called success must be wealth and people, and often both are indispensable. The same is true of a province.

Second, due to traffic reasons, the construction of 1906 Beijing-Guangzhou railway changed the water transport mode of Ganjiang River in Jiangxi Province in ancient times for more than 1000 years. This is changing with the world trend.

The third is the change of the academy model. Jiangxi has been the first academy in China since the Song Dynasty. The establishment of modern university system has changed the old lecture mode, resulting in brain drain and mobility.

Jiangxi's historical track seems to be a microcosm of China's history. In the era of agricultural civilization, Jiangxi is famous for its rich products, outstanding people and outstanding people. Lake filling in Jiangxi is also a huge migration activity in the ancient history of China. Today, many Jiangxi dialects retain this old saying. With the development of industrial revolution in western China, the productivity of industrial civilization has rapidly surpassed and greatly surpassed that of agricultural civilization, and Jiangxi, with agriculture as the main economic pillar, has also declined rapidly.

Because the coast is the frontier and window of reform, the first bucket of gold is naturally found in coastal provinces, and it is naturally difficult for Jiangxi, which is still a certain distance from the coast, to get a share. You know, due to the terrain, the provincial border with Guangdong is Nanling, and the border with Fujian and Zhejiang is Wuyishan. The investment level is very limited. The first railway in southern Jiangxi, Beijing-Kowloon Railway, was only opened to traffic in the 1990s, and Xiangpu Railway, a sea passage in southeastern Jiangxi, was also opened in 2000.