今年是鸦片战争150周年。1840年爆发的第一次鸦片战争,是当时资本主义头号强国——英国用武力奴役中国人民的一次侵略战争。对中国来说,它是一次反侵略的正义战争。鸦片战争既是中国半殖民地半封建社会的开始,也是中国人民反帝反封建的资产阶级民主革命的起点。 This year is the 150th anniversary of the Opium War. The first Opium War that erupted in 1840 was a war of aggression by the British capitalist elite at that time, the British occupation of the Chinese people by force. For China, it is a just war against aggression. The Opium War was the beginning of China’s semi-colonial and semi-feudal society and the starting point of the Chinese people’s anti-imperialist and anti-feudal bourgeois-democratic revolution.