During the first opium war that happened in china, china hand over Hong Kong to the British State on 20 January 1841, the handover was followed by the signing of the convention Chuenpi. Such delivery is as an effort to end the Anglo-Chinese conflict.
The order of these events at first in 1839, when Chinese government reviews the major policies of the opium trade in china. Lin Zexu then accept the job offer and made an emphasis on the opium trade. Action was then receive a response from the British, the chief inspector Charles Elliot trade Lin finally meets the demands of the way out to meet the costs for the settlement of the conflict between the two governments. When Elliot promises that the British government will pay for their opium supply, then the traders they deliver 20,283 chests of opium which was destroyed in public.
Then in 1839, the British cabinet decided that the Chinese have to pay some compensation for the damage to property with the threat of use of force and invaded China to crush opposition to interference in the affairs of state and political economy. A first concrete action english is occupied Hong Kong, which is a rare island residents on the southeastern offshore China. Then in 1841, China gave Hong Kong to the UK, the new agreement was signed one year later in Nanking tahun1842 agreement, and officially the agreement as an attempt to end the first Opium War.
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