What changes have taken place in China's social economy after the Opium War?

With the great powers dumping products to China and buying China's silk, tea and other agricultural and sideline products, China was gradually involved in the world market. The dominant self-sufficient natural economy has been strongly impacted, and China has increasingly become a part of the world capitalist market.

This has objectively promoted the development of China's commodity economy and contributed to the rise of China's national capitalism. However, foreign capitalism further intensified class contradictions and led to the outbreak of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement to a certain extent.

The Qing court's unequal reaction to treaty of nanking was not fierce, but it was uneasy about the equality system adopted in Chinese and English documents. But economically, foreign trade has grown rapidly, and China's market is also open to the outside world.

Extended data:

Formal independence is actually indirect imperialist rule. The meaning of semi-colonialism and semi-feudalism includes political, economic, ideological and cultural connotations. A semi-colony refers to a country whose national sovereignty has been destroyed politically. It is a country that has lost its national sovereignty but not completely, or partially lost its national independence and sovereignty.

Economically involved in the capitalist world market, becoming the raw material producing area and commodity sales market of capitalist countries; Culturally, it is manifested as "Western learning spreading to the east". Semi-feudalism refers to the gradual disintegration of natural economy in social economy and the emergence and development of modern capitalist factors, which not only preserved the feudal economic system but also developed the capitalist economic system.

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