Its present-day name, meaning everlasting peace, was proposed by Britain as part of its diplomatic contribution to the end of the bloody feuds between Chinese secret societies fighting over control of the tin-mining industry in the 1870s.
The tin-mining industry was the biggest money maker of the century.
mnli hypothesis: The tin-mining industry was the biggest money maker of the century. premise: Its present-day name, meaning everlasting peace, was proposed by Britain as part of its diplomatic contribution to the end of the bloody feuds between Chinese secret societies fighting over control of the tin-mining industry in the 1870s.