China's socio-economic knowledge points after the Opium War

The Opium War was a turning point in the history of China, which brought about fundamental changes in China's social economy. The traditional economic structure of small-scale peasant economy began to collapse. China's silk and tea production and export are becoming increasingly commercialized, and it has embarked on the road of relying on foreign capitalism. In this way, China gradually attached to the world capitalist system and became the commodity market and raw material producing area of the great powers. (2) Western powers forced China to sign unequal treaties through wars, and seized economic privileges, such as opening trading ports, negotiating tariff rights, inland navigation rights, mainland missionary and business, tourism, and unilateral MFN treatment rights. And gradually expand the aggression against China, a large number of foreign goods flooded into China, plundering China's raw materials. China's traditional self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy, China's five-port trade zone, was impacted by foreign countries and began to collapse.

To answer these questions, we should mainly consider the influence of the Opium War from the perspective of economic changes. It should be noted that the major change is that China has become a big country's commodity market and raw material producing area, but it has also played an objective and positive role. The reasons for the change are mainly considered from the following aspects: means of war, seizing economic and political privileges, dumping goods to China, and plundering raw materials.