The history of industrial development in new China

The foreign affairs movement introduced machine production, the dissemination of knowledge of natural sciences, training a number of science bai technology talents, founded the first batch of modern industrial enterprises, which is different from the traditional craft production of new forms of industry. His emergence shows that the modernization of China's economic field began to take off.

Two, the 1860s and 1870s, the emergence of national capitalist industry.

With the disintegration of the feudal economy and the development of the commodity economy, due to the stimulation of foreign enterprises and the inducement of the foreign affairs movement, Chinese national industry (national capitalism) began to emerge. Representative enterprise: Chen Qiyuan's machine reeling factory in Nanhai.

Third, at the end of the 19th century, China's national industry had a preliminary development.

Mainly after the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, the Qing government relaxed the restrictions on the establishment of private factories. (The initial development of Chinese national industry became the root cause of the Hundred Days' Reform Movement).

During World War I, there was a "golden age" of national industry, which was briefly prosperous.

The reasons for this were: the Xinhai Revolution overthrew the feudal empire and inspired the national bourgeoisie; during World War I, the imperialists were busy with the war and temporarily relaxed their economic plunder of China.

V. National industries were shrinking.

After World War I, imperialism returned (especially in Japan), and national industry suffered another setback. After the victory in the war, due to the KMT launched a civil war and other factors, national industry stagnation.