近代中国对外商业与经济的长大.docVIP

Historical background In the middle 18th century, the British merchant began to sell the local cotton production to China, and then carried away a large amount of tea, raw silk, silk fabrics, hand-woven cloth, pottery and sugar from China. At that time, the amount of silver was average surplus between five hundred thousand and one million yearly in China. Even on the eve of the Opium War, the amount was high up to three million. Focus on trade issues, the British asked the Qing government to cancel the restrictions, and relax the limits of trade. However, on that moment the Emperor of Qing go