The development of science and technology is one of the most important factors that made a rapid development of sea-lane trade between China and Arab in the Tang Dynasty.

"The silk road at sea" shows the historical facts of foreign trade and cultural exchanges since Han dynasty in guangzhou.

China had a vast territory in Yuan Dynasty and the foreign trade then was continuously developed on the basis of Song Dynasty.

In that period,China′s foreign trade and overseas Chinese community in Southeast Asia generally promoted each other.

This paper comments on the progress and limitation of Flower in the Mirror in terms of overseas trade, discusses the developing status of overseas trade in Qing Dynasty.

As far as the overseas trade towards Japan was concerned, the government hadn’t adopted the policy against all overseas activities.

During colonial period,overseas trade is important for British North America s subsistence and development.

Ways of financing maritime trade in ancient Greece;

Influenced by the western culture,Min merchants are good at maritime trades and had once been one of the top ten business bands of China.

This dissertation examines and analyses the development and evolution of Macao's maritime trade during the 16th and the mid 18th centuries in three periods, and makes conclusions as follows:1) The prosperity of Macao's maritime trade lasted from the 1580s to the 1620s; it was closely linked to the lo.