Before 1949, did China attach importance to business ideas or figures?

Before 1949, China had thoughts or figures that attached importance to business. According to relevant data, mercantilism was an important social trend of thought in the late Qing Dynasty, which began after the Opium War, that is, from 1840 to 1842, and became increasingly fierce. As the holder of industrial and commercial thoughts, Song's industrial and commercial thoughts were reflected in his in-depth thinking on the industrial and commercial situation at that time: on the one hand, he was deeply concerned about the different industrial and commercial conditions in the west and at home; On the other hand, he gave a prescription for how to develop domestic industry and commerce.