Section 4 Development Strategy

After official post office of the Qing Dynasty was set up, Hart was appointed as the General Post Official. He informed each customs: to be careful about the business at the beginning and develop it gradually, to prevent from interfering in existing organizations when drawing up regulations and avoid from affecting people's life and causing troubles and difficulties. Hart knew that old post cost enormously and was low-efficient. Old post obstructed post progress more than public post office did. But considering that the amount of newly established post offices was only few and had not been expanded, while the old post was long in history and had been adopted by the government for a long time, public post office was appreciated by civilians, both of them employed large amount of post staff. So they couldn't be changed or replaced by others at once. Therefore Had required "to interfere in existing post organizations as less as possible, the interference extend was decided by if official post could replace the work these organization was undertaking".

At the same bine when post administration bureau promoted the development of post, it was cautious about the old posts that were managed by the Board of War. In 1898' the imperial edict Of the Emperor Guangxu of "promoting post, required the prime Office to discuss it with the Board of War. After the prime Office forwarded it to Hart, Hart replied to con line non and didn't suggest to abolish the old post except that documents between the capital and several Provinces would be delivered by Post Office. He suggested "original copies of government document office for trial for one year. During this period, all transcripts still be delivered by the old post delivery to avoid missing. One year later, if delivery by post was safe and rapid, Whether old post delivery should be abolished could be decided by then". ms method was adopted till later. He suggested that the Document Office set up by local government could sun retain, to adopt the method first taking over its transportation, then taking over its sending and above gradually replacing it, thus decreasing the obstructions from local administrations for promoting modern post.

In the imperial edict of the Emperor Guangxu and the plan of officials for Promoting post, there were suggestions of popularizing post by province and county administration area. But there were no such a condition according social economy status and post power by then, so the official post administration, to non didn't develop post by administration area. but set up post organization and postal routes according to the requirements of business development Post development mainly went by social and economic and Postal routes should be in surplus. Whichever requirements. Post Offices balance, and expanded to inland and border areas from economically advanced coastal areas and both sides of river areas. By 1904,30 out of 40 post areas and subordinate post areas were set up in cities in coastal areas and along Yangtze River. Post organization didn't centered at the location of high-level administration bureau, with Tianjin as the center of North China, Shanghai as the center East China, Guangzhou as the center of South China, trading ports as the of each province. This mode was the important reason, trading ports as the center of each province. This mode was the important reason for the development of modern  China Post.