Saturday 8 October 2011

China's modern history

China's modern history
Modern history (1840-1919 AD)

Qing Dynasty declined rapidly at the beginning of the nineteenth century tenth. In this period, the British transferred huge amounts of opium into China, the Qing government tried to ban opium. But the British government launched a war of aggression against China in 1840 to protect the opium trade, and in the end, the Qing government signed with the Government of Britain ((Treaty of Nanjing)) which affected China's sovereignty and hurt the dignity of the Chinese nation. After the Opium War, forcing Britain and America, France, Russia, Japan and other countries, the Qing government to sign various unequal treaties. Since that time, China has gradually shifted to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country.

Toppled by the Revolution of 1911 led by Sun Yat-sen by the Qing Dynasty, which lasted about 270 years, at the same time and put an end to the imperial system, which lasted more than 2000 years, and established the Republic of China, said that to a great event in modern Chinese history.


New-Democratic Revolution (1919-1949 AD)

The "May 4th Movement", which broke out in China in 1919, a source of ideas for important events in modern Chinese history. Its direct cause was the unequal treaties imposed on China after the First World War. Has led a national protest movement of students to wage this resistance even included different groups in the whole country. Has also started various new ideas to enter China, the spread of Marxism - Leninism to attract more of them. In 1921, a Mao Tse-tung and 11 other people, in their capacity as representatives of the communist groups in different regions, the first national conference in Shanghai, the Chinese Communist Party relocated.

It has been the Chinese Communist Party during his leadership of the Chinese people in the new-democratic revolution in four phases: the Northern Expeditionary War (1924 -1927) and the stage of war, the agricultural revolution (1927 - 1937) and the stage of the War of Resistance against Japan (1937 - 1945) and War of Liberation (1945 - 1949). In the stage of the War of Resistance against Japan, cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party (KMT) party in resisting the invaders, and scored the victory in the war. But in 1945, the Kuomintang launched a civil war, and finally overthrew the Communist Party of China by the Kuomintang government in 1949 after the war of national liberation, which lasted 3 years.

People's Republic of China (1949 -)

In early October 1949, the masses of people gathered in Beijing Tian'anmen Square, where a solemn ceremony was held for the founding of the state. Declared Mao Zedong, chairman of the Central People's Government, solemnly: the establishment of the People's Republic of China officially.

At the beginning of the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese government succeeded in completing land reform in areas inhabited by more than 90% of farmers in the whole country. He received 300 million farmers on about 47 million hectares of land. The Five-Year Plan the first national economic development carried out in the period 1953 - 1957, Amazing achievements amounted to an average increase of national income more than 9.8% per year, and completed construction of a set of basic industries needed for industrial modernization did not exist previously, including aerospace, automotive and heavy machinery, precision machinery, power generation and mining equipment, mining and grade alloy steels and non-ferrous metals and others.

In the period 1957 - 1966, China has socialist construction on a large scale. Compared with 1956, increased fixed assets of the industry in 1966 by three times the previous price, and the national income increased by 58 percent in constant prices. Also increased the amount of production of some major industrial products multiple times or a few dozen times. And agricultural capital construction and technical transformation on a large scale. And the period between May 1966 and October 1976 for ten years the "cultural revolution" which has been inflicted the most serious setback and losses in the country and the people since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

In October 1976, the junta crushed Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary. This was a symbol of the end of the "cultural revolution", and China has entered a new phase in history. Returned to Deng Xiaoping, the former Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China all his party and government, and under his leadership, China began its policy of "reform and opening to the outside world" in 1979 and the focus was shifted to modernization. And by the reform of economic and political system, identified by gradually build socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics. Since the implementation of the policy of reform and opening to the outside world, there have been profound changes to the features of China. Begun to develop its economy and rapid development and rising standard of living of the people rose and clear, and this period is the best period in terms of political and economic situation since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Jiang Zemin took over the Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 1989 and President of the People's Republic of China in 1993; Hu Jintao took over as Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 2002 and President of the People's Republic of China in 2003. They led the Central Leading Group to continue to heredity and state policies on reform and opening-up and initiated by Deng Xiao Ping, which led to the emergence of a great era of prosperity in China is in its stable and rapid economic development and its active diplomacy.

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