The contradiction between imperialism and the Chinese nation; The contradiction between feudalism and the masses of the people is the main contradiction in modern China. Two pairs of principal contradictions in modern China society are intertwined, among which the contradiction between imperialism and the Chinese nation is the most important one.
Second, social nature: semi-colonial and semi-feudal nature.
China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal society is a deformed social form subordinate to the capitalist world system, which was gradually formed by the invasion of foreign capitalist forces and the combination with China's feudal forces in modern times.
Before the Opium War, China was a feudal society. After the Opium War, with the invasion of foreign capital-imperialism, the social nature of China has undergone fundamental changes: independent China has gradually become a semi-colonial China; Feudal China gradually became semi-feudal China.
Third, the basic characteristics.
1, the aggressive forces of capitalist imperialism not only gradually manipulated the financial and economic lifeline of China, but also gradually controlled the politics of China, and increasingly became the decisive force dominating China.
2. Feudal forces in China are declining day by day, and they collude with foreign aggression forces, which has become the social foundation and ruling pillar for capitalist imperialism to oppress and enslave the people of China.
3. Although the natural economic foundation of China has been destroyed, the land ownership of feudal landlords, the foundation of feudal exploitation system, is still maintained in vast areas, which has become a serious obstacle to China's modernization and democratization.
4. Although the emerging national capitalist economy in China has emerged and played a certain role in political and cultural life, it has developed slowly and its strength is weak under the oppression of imperialist feudalism, and most of it is related to foreign capital-imperialism and domestic feudalism to some extent.
5. Because modern China was under the struggle and indirect rule of capitalist imperialist powers, the economic, political and cultural development of modern China was extremely unbalanced, and China was in a state of disunity for a long time.
6. Under the double oppression of capitalist imperialism and feudalism, the broad masses of people in China, especially farmers, are increasingly poor, bankrupt in large numbers, and live a life of hunger and cold without political power.
China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal society and its characteristics were gradually formed with the expansion of imperialist aggression and the deepening of the combination of imperialism and China's feudal forces.