2. Venue: The Royal Navy ship "Gao Huali" anchored on Xiaguan River in Nanjing was signed by the imperial envoys of the Qing government, Jane Ying and Bu, and the British representative Pu Dingyi.
Nature: It is the first unequal treaty in China's modern history. Treaty of nanking destroyed China's territorial integrity and tariff sovereignty, facilitated British exports to China, and made China a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.
4. Contents:
(1) ceded Hong Kong Island;
(2) Compensation for British opium price, commercial debt and military expenditure * * * 21000000 silver dollars;
(3) There are five trading ports, and Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Ningbo and Shanghai are open as trading ports, allowing British people to live and send consuls;
(4) For the agreed tariffs, British businessmen should pay import and export goods tax and reimbursement fees, and China Customs has no right to decide independently;
(5) Abolish the public banking system and allow British businessmen to trade freely in China.
In addition, it also provides for equal exchanges between officials of both sides, the release of soldiers and civilians of the other side and the withdrawal of British troops.
Extended data:
The Influence of treaty of nanking
From the social nature, the signing of treaty of nanking made China a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.
Politically, the integrity of China's territory and sovereignty was destroyed and it began to lose its political independence.
Economically, due to the economic invasion of foreign capitalism after the war, the self-sufficient economic structure of small-scale peasant economy and cottage industry in China gradually disintegrated, and China's economy gradually became a vassal of world capitalism.
According to the revolutionary historical view, with the change of social nature, the situation of class struggle has also changed. The main social contradiction, from the contradiction between the landlord class and the peasant class, began to change into the contradiction between foreign capitalism and the Chinese nation.
The task of social revolution (the object of revolution) has also changed, and the people of China shoulder the dual revolutionary task of opposing foreign capitalist aggression and domestic feudal rule.
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