Cultural policy: Confucianism still dominates before the war, and the imperial examination system is still the main channel of official career; However, Daxing literary inquisition limited the cultural development at that time; After the war, influenced by the culture of western countries, Western revolutionary ideas such as the Reform Movement of 1898 began to slowly penetrate into China.
Religious belief: Before the war, the ruling class of Qing Dynasty regarded folk religion as "Left-wing misleading people" and called it "cult", which was repeatedly banned. After the war, western religions began to spread to China, Ma Lixun, a new sect, came to China to preach, and Protestantism began to spread in China. After the Opium War, Christianity developed rapidly relying on coastal trading ports. 1843, Hong Xiuquan called himself Jesus' younger brother with the help of Christian teachings, and established "Worship God", and later established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (185 1- 1864).
Economic policy: before the war, the Qing dynasty closed its doors to the outside world, emphasizing agriculture and restraining commerce, and the economy was supported by the family-oriented small-scale peasant economy and self-sufficient; After the war, the entity enterprises of Westernization Movement began to develop commerce to save the country. The main social contradictions are: the contradiction between imperialism and the Chinese nation, feudalism and the masses of the people, which are the main contradictions in modern China society, while the contradiction between imperialism and the Chinese nation is the most important contradiction among all kinds of contradictions. The existence and intensification of these contradictions will inevitably lead to the development of the revolutionary movement, which is the profound social root of China's revolution. China is a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. After the Opium War, the nature and principal contradiction of China society not only became the fundamental reason for the occurrence and development of the China Revolution, but also determined the object, task and nature of the modern China Revolution. That is to overthrow imperialist oppression externally, realize national independence and people's liberation, overthrow feudal rule internally, and realize national prosperity and people's democracy. These two tasks determined that the modern China Revolution was not only an anti-imperialist national revolution, but also an anti-feudal democratic revolution, which was the unity of the national democratic revolution.