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1840年6月,英国发动了侵略中国的鸦片战争。英国之所以要侵略中国,除了是为了维护丑恶的鸦片贸易,获取种种在华特权之外,还有一个重要目的就是企业图割占中国沿海的一个或几个岛屿。英国侵略者几经选择,最后把目光集中到位于广东珠江入海口的香港岛上。英国十分看重香港的优越的地理位置、战略价值、商业价值与天然良港等特点,他们对香港垂涎欲滴。在战争进行了几个月之后,英国侵略者利用清政府的腐败软弱,攻占浙江定海,威逼天津,使得昏庸的道光皇帝下令罢免了爱国抗英的大臣林则徐、
In June 1840, Britain launched the Opium War that invaded China. The reason why Britain wants to invade China is to safeguard the ugly opium trade and acquire all kinds of privileges in China. Another important purpose of the United Kingdom is that it plans to cut off one or several islands along the coast of China. After many choices by the British invaders, they finally focused their attention on the Hong Kong Island at the mouth of the Pearl River in Guangdong. The United Kingdom places great emphasis on Hong Kong’s strategic location, strategic value, commercial value and its natural harbor. They all over the world are coveted by Hong Kong. A few months after the war, the British invaders exploited the corruption of the Qing government and took advantage of Dinghai in Zhejiang Province and intimidated Tianjin, so that the stupid Emperor Daoguang ordered the dismissal of Lin Zexu, the patriotic anti-British minister.