What happened to China's modern economic structure?

Before the Opium War, the seeds of capitalism appeared in China. After the Opium War, foreign industrial products began to be dumped in China market, and China's natural economy gradually disintegrated, which objectively promoted the development of China's social commodity economy.

The stimulation of foreign enterprises. Foreign businessmen set up factories in China, and the Westernization School set up modern industries in China, which attracted some bureaucrats, landlords and businessmen to invest in modern industries.

The inducement of Westernization Movement. The Westernization School founded a number of modern military and civilian industrial enterprises, which promoted the emergence and development of modern national industries in China. Supplement:

(1) Before the Opium War, the small-scale peasant economy with self-sufficiency and the combination of agriculture and weaving always occupied a dominant position. After the Opium War, China began to become a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and the social economy of China has undergone fundamental changes.

(2) Under the impact of foreign goods, the small-scale peasant economy began to collapse, and a large number of craftsmen and farmers went bankrupt.

(3) Due to the plundering of China's raw materials and agricultural products by the great powers, a large number of agricultural products were exported, which reduced the self-sufficiency in China's agricultural economy and promoted the development of urban and rural commodity economy.

(4) China gradually attached to the world capitalist system and became the commodity market and raw material producing area of the great powers.