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Abstract After the victory of the Counter-Japanese War， the National Government decided to reorganize the customs system and successively cut down the inland river customs offices in the Mainland， hoping to recover the inland navigation rights and strengthen the control of the customs. In this adjustment， Wuchow customs was first reduced to sub-branch customs， and could not carry out foreign trades. After Li Zongren entered the Central Government， Wuchow customs was recovered. However， all walks of life in Guangdong believed that this move was detrimental to sovereignty and did harm to the economy， so they strongly resisted it with the support of some politicians. Li Zongren was forced to compromise， and the Executive Yuan also had to make a correction and make it clear that Wuchow was set up as a branch customs and could directly carry out foreign trade， but not open to the outside world. This dispute revolved around the sovereignty of inland navigation， but essentially influenced by multi-faceted interests，mainly reflecting the competition of power and interests between the Guangdong and Guangxi factions and even among the Kuomintang internal factions.
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Received: 21 May 2019
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2019, Vol. 58 
