南京国民政府建立后，曾采取强制手段对商会等民间社会团体进行整顿和改组，实施严格监督和控制。经过整理后，商会的力量的确有较大的削弱，但并非完全失去独立性，处于屈从政府意志的附属地位。“九·一八”事变后，上海市商会的民主抗日活动不仅超越了“在商言商”的信条，而且逾越了政府政策所许可的范围，与政府政策的导向形成鲜明的对比。上海市商会所发布的宣言通电从舆论上给政府造成了巨大的压力，并迫使政府在一定程度上改变了自己的政策。尽管商会的意志和要求屡屡遭致政府的抑制和漠视，但上海市商会为维护商人利益、民族利益和国家主权采取的行动证明商会是一个具有明显独立人格的商人团体 After the establishment of the Nanjing National Government, it adopted compulsory measures to rectify and reorganize civil society organizations such as chambers of commerce and implement strict supervision and control. After finishing, the power of chambers of commerce did have a great weakened, but it did not completely lose its independence and was in an adjunct position of submitting to the will of the government. After the “September 18 Incident”, the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce’s democratic anti-Japanese activities not only exceeded the credo of “business negotiation” but also overstepped the scope permitted by government policies, in stark contrast to the orientation of government policies. The announcement by the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce that the power of the declaration has caused tremendous pressure on the government from public opinion and forced the government to change its own policy to some extent. Although the will and demands of the chamber of commerce have repeatedly been suppressed and ignored by the government, the action taken by the chamber of commerce in safeguarding the interests of the businessmen, national interests and national sovereignty proves that the chamber of commerce is a group of businessmen with obviously independent personality