鸦片战争以前,中国封建社会已经孕育着资本主义萌芽。鸦片战争以后,外国资本主义的侵入,一方面摧残了中国资本主义萌芽,截断了中国资本主义独立发展的道路;另一方面瓦解了中国自给自足的封建经济,扩大了商品市场和劳动力市场,为中国资本主义的发展提供了某些客观条件和可能。鸦片战争以后,外商陆续在通商口岸设厂,受外商企 Before the Opium War, the feudal society in China had given birth to the seeds of capitalism. After the Opium War, the invasion of foreign capitalism destroyed the sprout of Chinese capitalism on the one hand and truncated the path of independent development of capitalism in China. On the other hand, it disrupted China’s self-contained feudal economy and expanded the commodity and labor markets. The development of Chinese capitalism provides some objective conditions and possibilities. After the Opium War, foreign businessmen set up factories one after another in the ports of commerce and were subject to foreign enterprises