“The New Deal” in the Late Qing Dynasty and the Indications of Modern Economy in the Uighurian Region of Xinjiang

The New Deal” in the late Qing Dynasty was taken as a total failure by almost all former scholars who looked at it as the ruler of the dynasty's struggle to save his rule over the country. In recent years, however, scholars have affirmed to a certain degree the value of“the New Deal” which was intended to learn the strategies for prospering the nation and improving the army from Western nations so as to promote modernization in China. Even as far as the Uighurian region in Xinjiang, which was located on the northwestern borderland, “the New Deal” in the late Qing Dynasty brought about some changes in “training the troops”, “developing education”, “promoting business” and “encouraging craftwork”, which sowed some seeds for the rise of modern economy in the region. Whereas these changes and seeds were not prevailing enough to shake the deeprooted feudal economic and political constitutions in the region, they stood for the tendency of social development and would grow stronger and stronger as an irresistible force to break through the shackles on the growth of Xinjiang's economy.