The transformation to an industrial society

China used to be an agricultural country; people used fire as their light and used horse or cow as their transportations. Industry and techonolgy were introduced by missionaries near the end of Ching Dynasty. At first, Chinese people were hard to accept high technology, such as train, car and even light bulb. They think high technology was like magic. It was so mistical that they couldn’t dare to try it. During that time, alomost every western contries started their industrial revolution. And estern countries were way behind. Not until Opium War did China start to become industrial society.
Taiwan was one of the first few countries in estern countries which had cell phones. Cell phones were introduced to Taiwan in late 80’s. The old cell phone was huge and heavy; it was not like nowadays cell phone, which is small and thin. At that time, cell phone also represented as wealth, people who had cell phone must be a rich people or a famous people. In the late 80’s, people still used telephone often, because cell phone was expensive and hard to carry. It was bigger than a purse and heavier than a book. It was weight 3 kg. Gradually, cell phone became thiner and thiner, smaller and smaller, and its price was not so expensive anymore. Some cell phones started being introduced into China, but because of the political issue in China, the trend of using cell phone didn’t move quickly. Fortunatelly, the gradually tradings between China and western countries made cell phones become popular. Nowadys, the number of cell phone users in China is 3.3 hundred million and it go far beyond the number of telephone users in China. Isn’t it amazing?