Works Bureau
The council, which is the municipal council, is set up in the concession is equivalent to an exercise of the executive power of the body. Known as the "Bureau of Work and Industry", similar to the Ministry of Industry in China. September 7, 1853, the knife will capture the Shanghai county, the Qing government lost control of the alien residence. On July 11, 1854, the Shanghai concession formed an autonomous administrative department, began to form its own police, court, prison and other similar to the government system, the municipal construction, security management, tax collection and other administrative activities. Subsequent development of the concessions are modeled on the Shanghai concession system. Later, some concessions (such as Tianjin) and even conventional foreign troops settled. Bureau of Industry and Commerce in essence served as a concession city government role. ...