After the Opium War, specially after the Sino Japanese War of 1894-1895, some changes had taken place in Chinese productive forces of traditional industries, such as the alteration of handicraft tools, of the technological mode of 'millstone + steam engine'. This was the intermediate technology during the transmission from tradition to modern in the handicraft industry. These changes brought about some active effects: it prepared factors for the transmission from handicraft to machinery industry, and promoted the develoment of handicraft economic zones in rural villages. At the same time, it p...