The first and most basic feature of industrialization is that

According to the relevant information on the library website, the most important and essential feature of industrialization is to replace manual labor with machine production. Industrialization is usually defined as the process in which the output value (or income) of industry (especially manufacturing industry) or secondary industry is rising in the gross national product (or national income).

Industrialization is the output value of industry or secondary industry.

Industrialization is usually defined as a process in which the output value of industry or secondary industry is rising in the gross national product, and the proportion of industrial employment in total employment is rising.

Industrial development is one of the remarkable characteristics of industrialization, but industrialization cannot be narrowly understood as industrial development. Because industrialization is the core content of modernization, and it is the process of transformation from traditional agricultural society to modern industrial society. In this process, industrial development is by no means carried out in isolation, but always complements agricultural urbanization and service industry development.

China's earliest industrialization thought can be traced back to the modern industrial thought represented by the Westernization Movement after the failure of the Opium War in 1840, which marked the beginning of industrialization in China. Although China gradually formed some foundations of modern industry after the Revolution of 1911, they were all destroyed by the war.

By 1949, there was hardly any economic legacy left for New China, when China's economic base even lagged behind that of India in the same period. China's real large-scale industrialization began after the founding of New China.

After the founding of New China, China began the great process of socialist industrialization, which was divided into two historical periods before and after the reform and opening up, namely, the socialist industrialization road period under the planned economy system and the Socialism with Chinese characteristics industrialization road period under the market economy system.