The disintegration of China's traditional economic structure first began to some extent.

After the Opium War, China's traditional economic structure gradually disintegrated.

Before the Opium War, China's feudal society itself was pregnant with the seeds of capitalism, but the natural economy still dominated. After the Opium War, the invasion of foreign powers objectively created conditions for the emergence of Chinese national capitalism, but it interrupted the historical development of the Chinese nation, destroyed the traditional economic structure, and brought profound disasters to the people of China and China.