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The main contents of the Tianjin Treaty

1. The British sent envoys to Beijing and set up consulates at various trading ports; they opened Niuzhuang (later changed to Yingkou), Dengzhou (later changed to Yantai), Taiwan (Tainan), and Chaozhou (later changed to Yantai). Shantou), Qiongzhou, Hankou, Jiujiang, Zhenjiang and Nanjing are treaty ports.

2. Jesuit and Catholic priests can preach freely.

3. The British can travel and trade inland, and can rent land and build houses, set up churches, hospitals, warehouses, etc. at various trading ports.

4. British merchant ships can trade with various ports on the Yangtze River.

5. China and Britain sent representatives to hold a meeting in Shanghai to revise tariffs.

6. China paid 4 million taels of silver as compensation to Britain.

7. Determine consular jurisdiction and one-sided most-favored-nation treatment.

Impact

The "Treaty of Tianjin" caused another serious damage to China's sovereignty, allowing Britain and the other three countries to obtain a series of aggressive privileges. It provides conditions for Britain, the United States, France and Russia to exert influence on the Chinese central government and local governments through their embassies and consulates in China.

It also expanded the aggressive power of British capitalism to South China, the Yangtze River Basin and Northeast China, getting closer to the origin of export goods and the marketing place of imported goods, which made it more conducive to dumping goods into China and plundering China. raw materials, causing huge damage to China's social economy.