The Ministry of Posts and Communications or YouchuanbuChen Zhongping.
Modern China's Network Revolution: Chambers of Commerce and Sociopolitical Change in the Early Twentieth Century
', p. 152. Stanford University Press, 2011. . () was a late

Qing dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China and an early modern empire in East Asia. The last imperial dynasty in Chinese history, the Qing dynasty was preceded by the ...

ministry responsible for mail and telecommunications and for the Chinese rail network. It was established in 1906 through the unification of the Imperial Railroad of North China and other railroads with the postal administration and the recently nationalized Imperial Chinese Telegraph Administration.Harwit, Eric.
China's Telecommunications Revolution
', p. 28. Oxford University Press, 2008. . In 1908, it founded the

Bank of Communications Bank of Communications (BOCOM or BankComm) is a Chinese multinational banking and financial services corporation. It was originally established in 1908 and was one of a handful of domestic Chinese banks that issued banknotes in modern history. ...

to redeem the Beijing–Hankou Railway from its Belgian concessionaires. The bank was also intended to unify funding for steamship lines, railways, and telegraph and postal facilities. After the establishment of the Central Bank of China in 1928, the Bank of Communications was used to fund general industrial development. After the 1911 revolution gave its name to the Communications Clique during the

Warlord Era The Warlord Era was the period in the history of the Republic of China between 1916 and 1928, when control of the country was divided between rival Warlord, military cliques of the Beiyang Army and other regional factions. It began after the de ...

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