Table 6.5 Estimates of Yearly Copper Production in Yunnan
Based on data from Yan Zhongping, Qingdai Yunnan Tongzheng Kao (A study on the Yunnan copper administration during the Qing Dynasty) (Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju, 1957), 81-84; also see Quan Hansheng, "Qingdai Yunnan Tongkuang Gongye" (The copper mining industry in Yunnan during the Qing dynasty), Journal of the Institute of Chinese Studies of the University of Hong Kong vol. 7, no. 1 (1974), 161 (calculations are mine).
Year | Output (jin) | Year | Output (jin) |
1740 | 10,286,227 | 1776 | 13,088,522 |
1741 | 9,349,998 | 1777 | 14,018,172 |
1742 | 10,295,401 | 1778 | 13,363,786 |
1743 | 8,985,049 | 1779 | 11,238,032 |
1744 | 10,252,783 | 1780 | 10,945,059 |
1745 | 9,272,782 | 1781 | 10,469,584 |
1746 | 10,577,662 | 1782 | 10,403,857 |
1747 | 10,967,901 | 1783 | 10,403,857 |
1748 | 10,352,100 | 1784 | 11,115,406 |
1749 | 10,205,437 | 1785 | 11,049,678 |
1750 | 9,155,974 | 1786 | 11,115,406 |
1751 | 10,955,144 | 1787 | 11,049,678 |
1752 | 10,271,331 | 1788 | 11,049,678 |
1753 | 11,496,527 | 1789 | 11,115,406 |
1754 | 11,595,694 | 1790 | 11,049,678 |
1755 | 10,888,782 | 1791 | 11,049,678 |
1756 | 11,155,003 | 1792 | 11,115,406 |
1757 | 11,463,102 | 1793 | 11,049,678 |
1758 | 11,463,102 | 1794 | 10,260,946 |
1759 | 11,995,559 | 1795 | 10,260,946 |
1760 | 11,706,966 | 1796 | 10,260,946 |
1761 | 12,324,989 | 1797 | 11,027,412 |
1762 | 12,647,858 | 1798 | 10,968,454 |
1763 | 11,988,040 | 1799 | 10,968,454 |
1764 | 12,685,821 | 1800 | 10,925,217 |
1765 | 12,504,668 | 1801 | 10,897,703 |
1766 | 14,674,481 | 1802 | 11,972,056 |
1767 | 14,127,249 | 1803 | 9,611,783 |
1768 | 13,792,711 | 1804 | 10,355,363 |
1769 | 14,567,697 | 1805 | 11,228,475 |
1770 | 11,844,596 | 1806 | 10,355,363 |
1771 | 11,685,646 | 1807 | 11,228,475 |
1772 | 11,891,110 | 1808 | 12,025,119 |
1773 | 12,378,446 | 1809 | 9,558,720 |
1774 | 12,357,442 | 1810 | 10,574,916 |
1775 | 13,307,975 | 1811 | 10,538,656 |
Total | - | - | 813,180,818 |