Abstract：From the end of the 19th century to the early of 1930, Semi industrialization rose in the handicraft cotton weaving in some rural areas of North China under the influence of the subjective and objective factors. The handicraft adopted progressive technology and was guided by market in the phase of semi industrialization. Because of the World Capital Economic Crisis of 1929-1933, the Japanese Chinese War of 1931 and 1937, and so on, the semi industrialization declined. In spite of this, the semi industrialization played a positive role and had a great influence on the village's social and economic change. We ought to distinguish the semi industrialization from the cottage handicraft in the traditional sense.
