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October 7, 1911, the court promote the office of salt administration to Ministry, and appointed Minister of Finance to take charge of it. Salt administration used to be an essential issue in traditional economy. From the ancient time salt had been listed as the state's monopoly business. About the research on salt administration in traditional China, please refer to our research finding: Yang Jeou-yi, "Defining Features of the Qing Salt Monopoly: An Institutional Analysis".
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