汉冶萍公司是近代中国洋务运动的产物,曾被誉为亚洲第一雄厂,代表着一代精英实业救国的梦想。但时值国家民智未开,国民严重缺乏理性的财产权观念,再加上其深处封建生产关系的泥沼,本身又得不到来自宪法授权的国家权力的强有力保护,因而在历次对外贸易中饱受日本帝国主义势力的盘剥与压榨,继而走向衰亡。用法律的理性思维来检视汉冶萍公司的兴衰过程,可折射出一幅近代中国身处逆境仍挣扎图强的图景,同时也为今天中国的法治建设提供了若干启示。 Han Yee Ping company is the product of modern Western China Movement, has been hailed as Asia’s first male factory, representing the dream of a generation of elite industry to save the country. However, when the national wisdom is not on and the national population lacks a rational concept of property rights, coupled with the deep quagmire of feudal relations of production itself can not be strongly protected by the power of the state authorized by the Constitution, so in the previous foreign trade Suffered by the exploitation and squeezing of the Japanese imperialist forces, they went on to decline. Using the rational thinking of law to examine the rise and fall of the Han Ye Ping Company reflects the picture of modern China that still struggled in the face of adversity and provides some enlightenment for the rule of law in China today.