上海社会团体从事到外地旅游考察活动的起步时间并不很早,这主要是因为到外地去必须有赖于交通条件,而十九世纪中叶,中国的道路建设及交通工具都尚欠发达。但进入民国以后,沪宁、沪杭甬铁路已先后开通,到二三十年代,中国的公路建设出现较大进步,因为这个前提,一些团体有了组织 It is not very early for social organizations in Shanghai to engage in overseas tourism inspections. This is mainly due to the need to rely on traffic conditions in other places. By the middle of the nineteenth century, China’s road construction and transport facilities were still underdeveloped. However, after entering the Republic of China, the Shanghai-Nanjing-Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Railway has opened one after another. By the 1920s and 1930s, great progress had been made in road construction in China. Because of this premise, some groups have organized