Taking history as a mirror can govern the country.

These three sentences fully illustrate the importance of history to today.

The modern history of China refers to the history since 1840, in which the period from 1840 opium war to 1949 the eve of the founding of new China is called the modern history, and 1949 the modern history of China since the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC).

This is a wandering year, a turbulent year and even a bloody year. Generations of people with lofty ideals and people in China fought bravely to save the nation and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and some of them gave their precious lives. They groped their way forward in the dark and looked for light in the middle of the night. They closely link the happiness of their lives with the country. In particular, the people of all ethnic groups in China have waged great and arduous struggles under the leadership of the Chinese Production Party, and won national independence and national liberation through the new-democratic revolution. After the socialist revolutionary reform, the chaotic old China has gradually turned into a new socialist China with initial prosperity and vitality.

There are many excellent spiritual qualities and victorious revolutionary experiences, and of course there are also mistakes made by the people during these periods, some of which are even irreparable. It is a fine tradition of China to attach importance to historical research and sum up experiences and lessons. This is true of all the leaders of New China. Comrade Mao Zedong said that the lessons of history deserve attention, and he often advocated "learning a little history" throughout the country. Deng Xiaoping, the chief architect of New China, also attaches great importance to educating people's cadres and youth with history: "I am from China and know the history of foreign aggression against China." "Understanding these histories is the spiritual motive force of China's development."

"Starting from the doll" is a method that China has always practiced, and studying history is no exception. The teacher taught us that "China has a history of more than 5,000 years" and "New China was founded in 1949" when we first entered school, so we must be patriotic. I know I'm in college now, and the history class continues. College students are the builders of the future socialism of the motherland and the fresh troops on all fronts. In order to successfully shoulder the responsibility of building the motherland, we must understand the history of China, not only today in China, but also yesterday and the day before yesterday in China. No matter what career you are engaged in in in the future, it is very necessary to study the modern history of China.

Today, the book "Modern History of China" has been studied with me for two months. For two months, I felt deeply, sometimes cheering for their achievements and sometimes crying for the scars in my heart. Pages of history textbooks are passed from the teacher's mouth and compiled into vivid historical scenes. I seem to see the people of China being squeezed by opium, skinny, penniless and even selling their wives and children; I seem to have seen the inhuman killing, arson and rampage of imperialism in China; I seem to have seen a large number of awakened farmers put down their sickles and hoes, picked up steel knives and shot foreign thieves; I seem to have seen the China * * * production party of hundreds of millions of people in China fight our way out and run towards the light.

Indeed, the harm caused by opium is terrible, but without it, how can there be the grandeur of the smoke of officials such as Humen Lin Zexu; The destruction of Yuanmingyuan really shocked China and foreign countries, but without the fire that shocked China and foreign countries in that town, how could it be awakened by the people of China! ! Yes, the fire awakened the sleeping hearts of hundreds of millions of people in China!

1919-1949, China has experienced earth-shaking 30 years. At this time, China is still in a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and the main social contradiction is still the contradiction with foreign aggression and China's feudal system; Farmers are still the main force against imperialism and feudalism; New social forces such as the working class, the student masses and the emerging national bourgeoisie have developed. The most important thing is that the working class has replaced the bourgeoisie as the leading force of the new bourgeois democratic revolution. The people of China, under the leadership of China, the vanguard of the working class in China, after a long and arduous struggle, overthrew the semi-colonial and semi-feudal society for more than half a century, won the victory of the new-democratic revolution, established People's Republic of China (PRC), basically completed the task of national independence and people's liberation, and opened the way for national unity and prosperity.

At that time, China was in a special period and the international environment was complicated. Just after the First World War, one of the consequences was the decline of Europe (Germany was defeated, Britain and France were defeated but weakened), and the United States and Japan rose as world powers. During the First World War between the United States and Japan, the dumping of goods and the export of capital to China increased rapidly. Since then, Japanese aggression has become a growing threat to China.

1917165438+10. On 7 October, the October Revolution broke out, opening a new era in human history. The October Revolution opened up broad possibilities and realistic roads for the liberation of people all over the world. * * * Productivism and socialism are gradually put on the agenda by Asian, African and Latin American countries.

The ambition of the invaders will not be easily destroyed. Sure enough, shortly after the end of World War I, World War II broke out. This time, more than 60 countries, accounting for 4/5 of the world's population, were involved in this war. The disaster brought by this war is endless, and the world pattern has also undergone profound changes. Germany, Italy and Japan were completely defeated, Britain and France were severely weakened, and the United States became the hegemon of the capitalist world. After the test of war, the Soviet Union finally became the only country that could compete with the United States. Meanwhile, socialism has won in many countries. China finally won the American struggle to help Chiang Kai-shek after a tenacious struggle.

At this time, China's economy was in a rather unfavorable situation. The expansion of foreign monopoly capital in China, the dominant position of feudal economy, the rapid expansion of bureaucratic capital, and the poor economic situation of the national bourgeoisie are in a difficult situation. However, under the leadership of the * * * Production Party, the people of China finally achieved economic independence and prosperity.

The ironclad fact tells us that in China, the feudal society has passed, capitalism is hard to become a climate, and it was strangled in its infancy. Only socialism can save China, and only the * * * Production Party can save China. Socialist construction has developed in twists and turns in exploration.

Development depends on economy. The establishment of the socialist system has created more favorable conditions for the further protection and development of productive forces. In the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's Eighth Route, several five-year economic plans were defined. Later, Deng Xiaoping, who was in charge of state affairs, also put forward the slogan "Science and technology are the primary productive forces". China is changing from an agricultural country to an industrial country. Oil wells spew oil, factories produce cars, and waves of ports sail out of ships. New China is marching towards a world power at an unprecedented speed.