The reason why China has developed so rapidly is precisely because china knows that backwardness is to be beaten, because China has a very humiliating history in history, and in the late Qing Dynasty, due to the corruption of the Qing government, some Western powers united to invade and occupy our country, and many of our territories were forcibly divided among them, and various unequal treaties were signed at that time.
Remember that the British colonialists forcibly leased Hong Kong for 99 years, Portugal forcibly leased Macao for 99 years to separate Hong Kong and Macao from the motherland, and on July 1, 1997 and December 20, 1999, Hong Kong and Macao returned to the motherland on these two days, and at that time, China still had a piece of land not to lease for 99 years, many people think that it is Macao, in fact, it is not Macao, this place is larger than more than 70 Macao, this is Guangzhou Bay, this Guangzhou is not Guangzhou, but Zhanjiang City in Guangdong Province. The area is very large, and the geographical location of Guangzhou Bay is also very superior, and the subtropical crops and seafood resources are very rich.
In the 19th century, the West began to break into the qing Dynasty's national gates, at the beginning of the United Kingdom, Germany and Russia and other countries in the south of our country to open a leasing precedent, and as a Western power France is also eager to move china, in 1897, France then in the name of the marine scientific expedition, sent a white watt light warship, this battleship also has a large number of scientific expeditions and scientific instruments, indicating that to Southeast Asia and other regions to carry out the weight of the sea depth of the heavy hammer measurement, But France's ambitions were very strong, and this time it was to invade Canton Bay, and in less than half a month in southeast Asian waters, the White Watts asked the local government for docking on the grounds that the equipment hanging on the ship was damaged and replenished with food.
At that time, the Qing government was not a fool who had long seen the French conspiracy, so it refused at that time, but the voice did not fall, the French white watt was about to reach Guangzhou Bay, but when the white watt was close to the shore of Guangzhou Bay, France did not choose to go ashore at that time, and guangzhou bay did not intervene at that time, and this stalemate situation was finally broken by France, so the French army began to go ashore, in fact, at that time, the Qing government had sent the Qing army and some militia to guard the shore. However, at that time, the number of Qing troops was relatively small, and the number of civilian troops was relatively correct, so the civilian army became the main force of this battle.
When the French army entered the inch gold bridge, the militia swore to resist to the death, the militia also bought explosives under the bridge, and also mobilized a large number of cannons to the bridge, it seems that such a plan is very thorough, but there is still a big gap between the combat quality and the French army, France only sent a small part of the soldiers at that time, and the large troops detoured from the rear, and finally the French army surrounded the militia, although the initial resistance in Guangzhou Bay failed at that time, but the people in the surrounding areas also participated in it, forming a situation in which all the people were soldiers The Battle of Guangwan Resistance also lasted for a year, but in the end it failed due to the weakness of the Qing government and the disparity in strength between China and France.
In 1899, the Qing government was forced to sign an unequal treaty with France, that is, the "Sino-French Mutual Lease of Guangzhou Bay Treaty", the content of the treaty is also very shameless, the lease of Guangzhou Bay was leased to France, the lease period is the same as Hong Kong and Macao is 99 years, France is also very happy, but also proud of its own war of aggression, at that time also changed Guangzhou Bay to White Watt said, it is too rampant, and then China continues to develop, and then will be up to 99 years of lease, has been 52 years ahead of the return to the motherland, I believe that the people of Zhanjiang will never forget that period of history.