"Non-treaty Port" was different from treaty port in modern China.
In 1842 the treaty of Nanjing saw the opening of Shanghai as a treaty port.
The Late Qing dynasty's opening of treaty port developed advanced weaving techniques in many main treaty ports such as Shanghai.
The non treaty port is one of the important types of trading ports in modern China.
Among them , as the earliest modernized cities , the treaty port cities , opened to the outside under the threaten of those invading western countries and through their unequal treaties .
A city of northeast China on the Gulf of Bo Hai east of Beijing. It was formerly a treaty port. Population, 300, 000.
After the treaty ports were opened, broker's storehouses grew first in port cities, then extended gradually into inland markets and the principal lines of trade in native and foreign goods.
